[Fedora-packaging] Directory ownership guidelines

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Mattias Ellert wrote:
>
>> It was suggested to me to bring this issue to this list.
>> 
>> The packaging guidelines says that a package should not own a directory
>> that is owned by a package on which it depends.
>> 
>> The packaging guidelines also says that packages should own all
>> directories needed in order not to leave orphaned directories after a
>> package de-installation.
>> 
>> The way rpm/yum currently works these guidelines are contradicting and
>> you must choose which one to implement in your packaging.
>> 
>> My question is - is this a bug in yum/rpm, or a flaw in the packaging
>> guidelines?
>
> bug.

What bug number is this?

-sv