[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Apr 22 22:11:46 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:00 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:46 +0200, Jean-François Martin wrote:
> > Le mardi 22 avril 2008 à 16:25 -0500, Josh Boyer a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 16:08 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > > > Two changes have recently been made to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
> > > >
> > > > Specifically:
> > > >
> > > > The main Fedora Packaging Guidelines now has a section which forbids packages
> > > > to own files or directories under /srv. This new section can be found here:
> > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#NoFilesOrDirectoriesUnderSrv
> > > >
> > > > As a reminder, any Fedora packages which are currently owning files or directories
> > > > under /srv need to be fixed before the release of Fedora 10.
> > >
> > > Or what? And who's going to verify that?
> > >
> > yum whatprovides /srv/* ?
>
> That's a way to detect packages yes. My question was more directed at
> what happens to packages that aren't fixed and _who_ is actually going
> to verify they are fixed. Not how.
I volunteered to audit packages for compliance in the F10 cycle.
~spot
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