[Fedora-packaging] review guidelines vs packaging guidelines

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Aug 23 13:34:52 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:14:45PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le Jeu 23 août 2007 12:58, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> 
> > Ok, I didn't understood it that way. But it isn't true, the guidelines
> > are setup such that having no ownership of a directory is impossible.
> 
> I'm not so sure. The lax guidelines are more ambiguous, at no time do
> they clearly say "every directory must be owned" (with single or
> multiple owners). They say "the rule of thumb is everything must be

Indeed. It would be much more clearer if there was, in addition to all
the explanations, a simple sentence saying, maybe as a conclusion of all
the examples:

"In any case there should never be any unowned directory appearing after
a package uninstall."

--
Pat




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