[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:48 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> There are going to be many pear packages which share a directory such
> as Auth/ or Image/ or Net/ etc.
> 
> The simple rule of thumb in this case is that if there is no clear
> heirarchy of directory ownership, then all packages must own that
> directory.
> 
> This should be added to the PHP packaging guidelines since this goes
> against the Fedora Extras guidelines which state that the package must
> not own files or directories owned by other packages.

Instead of adding it to the PHP packaging guideline, the directory
ownership rule should be clarified in the main guideline.

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