[Fedora-packaging] core dev's have a ways to go

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Mar 24 22:58:05 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Just some frustration venting mostly, but Core dev's have a ways to go 
> before "their" packages will ever come close to Extras quality, 
> especially when they ignore good/valid suggestions and the very helpful 
> stuff on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines

So we're moving to something internally that is built around mock, which
should have a huge hand in cleaning up a lot of bad packages, wrt
BuildReqs and such.  We're also talking about pushing forward w/ a
packaging guideline that models (or IS) the Extras guidelines.  We're
working to improve this situation.

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