[Fedora-packaging] Re: New draft packaging guidelines for OCaml
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 1 15:38:11 UTC 2008
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.
Rich.
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