[Fedora-packaging] Re: New draft packaging guidelines for OCaml

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:38:11PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:05:48PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I've started a page for updating the packaging guidelines.
> > 
> >   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/OCaml
> > 
> > At the moment it's a straight copy of the packaging guidelines except
> > that I've updated 'ocaml-foolib.spec' from my private copy of that
> > file.
> > 
> > Some ideas:
> > 
> >  - how useful is the whole '%opt' stuff now that we have native
> >    compilation on every Fedora architecture?
> > 
> >  - use of chrpath and strip
> > 
> >  - should we finally distribute ocaml-find-requires/provides with
> >    upstream RPM?  They haven't changed in a long time.
> > 
> >  - note about some common rpmlint errors:
> >    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433783
> > 
> >  - ISO-8859-1 - should we ban it from *.ml & *.mli files?
> >    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434694
> > 
> >  - camlp4/camlp5 syntax extensions are a bit different from a
> >    distribution point of view.  They usually don't need a -devel
> >    package, and they require *.cmo files to be distributed.
> >    And sometimes they should be noarch.
> >    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435431
> >    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435299
> >    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435293
> 
> And while I remember:
> 
>  - ocaml-pcre-devel pulls in ocaml-pcre and pcre.
>    However it doesn't pull in pcre-devel, so you cannot actually
>    'devel'op software with this package: programs will fail to link
>    because of missing -lpcre.  This may be a general problem with
>    all our packages which use C libs, although for some reason
>    I've only hit it with this one.

And:

 - certain binaries should not be stripped
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435559

Rich.

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