[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 22:00:10 UTC 2008


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.

josh




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