[Fedora-packaging] Directory ownerships again

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Tom \"spot\" Callaway wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alright. I'm putting this on the top of my todo list, which means I'll
>>>> probably get to it sometime in the next week or two. I'm putting my
>>>> janitor hat on and just fixing it for people (I will announce that I am
>>>> doing it before hand).
>>>>
>>> What are the other criteria for 'improper' duplicate dir ownerships? Are
>>> there any other that I can drop into the script to make it easier/faster?
>>>
>>
>> Many perl packages own same directories.
>
> They _must_ do so - And many other package should better do so, also.
>

I never said they shouldn't.

>> I don't know how easy will it
>> be to implement the "properness" of their duplicate dir ownerships.
>
> Proper ownership would mean: directories being provided by several packages,
> must all have identical permissions and ownerships.
>

So all packages that own same directories with identical permissions
and ownerships are doing it right? Of course not!

The question is: Some perl packages rightfully own some directories
that are also rightfully owned by some other perl package. But it is
possible that there are packaging mistakes in certain cases.
How would you distinguish those perl packages that have a mistake? And
how would you implement this in the duplicate-directory-ownership
script to filter out the false alarms?

Orcan