[Fedora-packaging] PHP guidelines

[Christopher Stone]

On 7/26/06, Toshio Kuratomi <toshio at tiki-lounge.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 15:32 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On 7/26/06, Toshio Kuratomi <toshio at tiki-lounge.com> wrote:
> > > Read again what I wrote -- it's not about a feature that's in php
> > > (well, actually a feature of the web server) "?> ", it's about a
> > > hypothetical bug discovery process involving "<?php ".
> >
> > So should we change all php source files to use "<?php" or should you
> > fix php to accept "<?php ".  Then ask yourself, should we fix all spec
> > files to add a %build, or should we fix redhat-rpm-config?
>
> Yep.  We fix redhat-rpm-config.  Then the next time we run across
> something unexpected happens we break packages again.  Then we fix it
> again.  Then it breaks again.....
>
> We're supposed to be promoting good packaging practice here.  If we know
> that something as simple as including %build in your spec is a way to
> isolate your package from some subset of problematic special cases, then
> we should do that.

Okay, so you are saying it is better to hide or mask problems rather
than fix them?  I'm sorry, but I disagree.  Probably the reason things
are so hacky as they are now is because we have been hiding problems
rather than fixing them.