[Fedora-packaging] Re: fontpackages template warnings

[Sarantis Paskalis]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:44:26PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> 
> Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 16:37, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> >
> > Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 15:29, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit :
> >> Hello,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you for adapting your packages and providing feedback!
> >
> >> I am converting my font packages to the new guidelines and hit some
> >> rpmlint warnings that appear to be template related.  Specifically,
> >> I
> >> followed the /etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-multi.spec from
> >> fontpackages-devel that creates absolute symlinks between
> >> /etc/fonts/conf.d/$font.conf and
> >> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/$font.conf
> >> rpmlint moans about the absolute symlink and wants a relative one.
> >> I
> >> don't really have an opinion about that and could not find any
> >> fedora
> >> policy on this one [1].
> >
> > I didn't find a simple (for me and packagers) way to create relative
> > symlinks here. Individual packages are not supposed to know the values
> > of the directory macros since FPC asked for them in part to hide
> > future value changes from individual packagers.
> 
> drat, should have read your link before commenting.
> I'm not sure how ok it is to add a dep to symlinks for
> fontpackages-devel. It looks harmless enough, but is this package even
> in all our spins?

Just for completeness, the link in question is 
http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/25

> I suppose if I change the templates to use the symlinks command to
> avoid the rpmlint warning, I need to notify FPC at least (even if it's
> a minor change, it's still a guidelines change)

-- Sarantis