Packaging/Review Guidelines change

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Sat Jan 14 18:47:51 UTC 2006


On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:57:33 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:

> Enrico Scholz wrote :
> 
> > Tom 'spot' Callaway writes:
> > 
> > > MUST: Packages must not own files or directories already owned by
> > > other packages. The rule of thumb here is that the first package to be
> > > installed should own the files or directories that other packages may
> > > rely upon. This means, for example, that no package in Fedora Extras
> > > should ever share ownership with any of the files or directories owned
> > > by the filesystem or man package. If you feel that you have a good
> > > reason to own a file or directory that another package owns, then
> > > please present that at package review time.
> > >
> > > This is a policy that has been enforced for sometime, but never actually
> > > added to the guidelines (until now).
> > 
> > What is with directories like
> > 
> > /usr/share/locale/C
> > /usr/share/locale/nl_BE
> > /usr/share/locale/uk_UA
> 
> My guess : Let %find_lang do its magic for these, and if it owns them, then
> get that macro fixed ;-)

I'm sure it is the opposite. %find_lang only includes the message object
files, not the directories. And therefore, any of the locale directories
are unowned unless glibc-common or a filesystem package includes them.
(btw, some packages also add locales not supported by glibc)




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