Readme.fedora files in EPEL

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Mon Jun 25 13:46:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> On 22.06.2007 23:52, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Fr Juni 22 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 
> >> Maybe we need to enforcing calling it README.distribution or a generic
> >> name like in the Fedora packaging guidelines that so EPEL can reuse the
> >> content or atleast the file name without any issues.
> > In Bugzilla EPEL is called "Fedora EPEL". So a README.Fedora is no problem 
> > imho.
> 
> I agree with both of you -- but "README.distribution" IMHO would be the
> proper solution. Especially if we could get the rest of the world
> (OpenSuse, ...) to use it as well to mention distribution specific stuff.

Like Thorsten's example, please use lowercase for the distribution name.

We still have to shoot the NetworkManager people for their bad taste in 
naming things :)

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