Packaging Draft for Emacs add-on packages

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:22:29PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > On 07/05/07, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > >On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:27 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > >> Dear All,
> > >>
> > >> I have created a draft Packaging Guide for Emacs add-on packages here:
> > >>
> > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/EmacsenAddOns
> > >>
> > >> Any comments or suggestions greatfully received. There are a couple of
> > >> spec file templates included which I hope will be useful.
> > >>
> > >> I'd like to get this added to the packaging notes fairly soon -
> > >> presumably this requires FESCO ratification?
> > >
> > >Actually, it needs to go to the Packaging Committee.
> > 
> > Well, I think it's too verbose and specific to be part of the
> > packaging guidelines, which are more general in their nature. The
> > point of this document was to outline "Good Practice" and lower the
> > intertial barrier to building add-on packages for Emacs. So I'm not
> > sure where it's best put, and whether it needs to go via Packaging
> > committee approval or not.
> > 
> > There seems to be quite a lot of information gathered under
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging that isn't easily accessed but
> > seems really useful.
> 
> Anything under /Packaging has been approved by the Packaging
> Committee. Approving something does not mean it gets embedded into the
> core guidelines, sometimes there is just a link to a subpackage.

s/subpackage/subpage/

> And there are quite some very detailed sets of guidelines existing
> in that way, so there is no problem with verbosity ;)
> 
> But anyway better discuss this on fedora-packaging.





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