[Fedora-packaging] file permissions, guidelines, rpmlint

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:13:03PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> 
> Le Lun 7 décembre 2009 23:21, John Dennis a écrit :
> 
> > * Should rpmlint really be emitting warnings and errors for items not in
> > the guidelines? (not just about file/directory but a number of other
> > issues which frankly seems dubious). If rpmlint and the guidelines are
> > divergent then should rpmlint be a recommended tool during package review?
> 
> rpmlint is very convenient but
> 
> 1. has been known to emit stupid warnings in the past (for example, during
> months it failed *any* spec file with UTF-8 inside, when UTF-8 was a Fedora
> choice, and while FPC had not asked for any filtering)
> 
> 2. has refused to include checks for some Fedora packaging guidelines (because
> they were "distro specific" (ie the maintainer disagreed with FPC; today the
> same checks are performed by Debian's lintian on .debs, but rpmlint still
> ignores them)
> 
> I don't think this can resolved unless the rpmlint maintainer agrees to pay
> more attention to Fedora packaging guidelines. Right now rpmlint is whatever
> rpmlint maintainer feels is right. It may align or not with our own packaging
> guidelines.

If rpmlint upstream doesn't want to implement our guidelines, then either
we need a new tool, or try to make rpmlint support 'plugins', so that we
can drop extra Fedora rules into the standard upstream set without needing
to hack the main source.

Daniel
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