Correcting directory ownership of /usr/share/omf in Fedora

[Hans de Goede]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 18:23 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>> Currently there are several packages in Fedora that own
>> the /usr/share/omf directory, which was due to scrollkeeper not owning
>> it.  Now that scrollkeeper has been corrected in Rawhide to own this
>> directory, we will be opening bugs on the other packages that should no
>> longer own it.
>>
>> For more information about the rationale for directory ownership refer
>> to:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-a5931a7372c4a00065713430984fa5875513e6d4
>>
>> If anyone has any questions about this, don't hesitate to contact me.
> 
> I see that this is fixed in cvs but hasn't hit the mirrors for rawhide
> at the time of posting.
> 
> Is this fixed scrollkeeper going to be issued as an update for FC-5 or
> am I going to have to retain ownership of /usr/share/omf in the FC-5
> branches of my affected package(s)?
> 
> I also note that packages un-owning /usr/share/omf will need to add a
> dependency on scrollkeeper for the directory ownership; many of the
> affected packages will currently only have scriptlet dependencies on
> scrollkeeper.
> 

Indeed, and I wonder of we really want a dependency on scrollkeeper in 
this packages, then we could argue that all packages containing html 
docs should have a dependency on htmlview, etc.

Wouldn't it be better to but shared dirs like this into the filesystem 
package? The same goes for /usr/share/applications and 
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/XxX/apps

Regards,

Hans