RFE: Use generic names in packages

Brian Pepple bpepple at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jun 29 14:09:21 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:21 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245649
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245826
> 
> I have a couple of review requests which may be affected by the
> outcome of this discussion. Specifically whether one should append
> "fedora-" to the names of the *.desktop files or use the "X-Fedora"
> category in the *.desktop files installed by these packages in
> /usr/share/applications ?

The packaging guidelines seem pretty clear to me.  For new packages, if
upstream uses <vendor_id>, leave it intact, otherwise use fedora as
<vendor_id>.

And where in the packaging guidelines does it say that you should be
adding the X-Fedora category?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-254ddf07aae20a23ced8cecc219d8f73926e9755

Later, 
/B
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