Summary of the 2008-10-21 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Meeting minutes and full logs of the 2008-10-21 FPC meeting are
online:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes/20081021

Issues pending FESCo ratification:

* Eclipse plugin guideline modification
** Reported on-list; archive is at
   https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2008-October/msg00121.html
** These tweak the guidelines to fix a few typos, clean the templates
   up a bit and accommodate changes in Eclipse 3.4.

* Desktop File guideline modification
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/DesktopFileVendor
** This removes language which many interpreted as requiring most
   desktop files to be installed with --vendor=fedora.

Other discussions:

* Cpack guidelines
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/CmakeCpack
** The committee was unclear as to how this applied to packaging
   guidelines at all, as it seems to contain tips for upstream
   developers instead of instructions for Fedora packagers.

* Tweaks to the specfile template for fonts
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_spec_template_correction_(fontconfig)
** This alters the template for font packages to deal with issues
   surrounding the /etc/fonts/conf.avail directory.
** FPC agreed with the proposal but had some suggestions; these will
   be addressed and the issue will be raised later.

* New guideline relating to generically named packages and files.
** Tough to actually write a guideline involving the use of common
   sense as applied to things like this.
** Jason will draft a proposal for consideration soon.

 - J<