Too many unowned directories

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 30 19:49:27 UTC 2009


Am Freitag, den 30.01.2009, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Michael Schwendt:
> | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines
> |
> | MUST: A package must own all directories that it creates. If it does not
> | create a directory that it uses, then it should require a package which
> | does create that directory.
> |
> | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#FileAndDirectoryOwnership
> | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UnownedDirectories
> 
> Despite being in the guidelines as above, more and more unowned
> directories are found in Fedora/Rawhide.
> 
> They spring up like mushrooms.
> 
> There must be reviewers and packagers who don't understand above
> guideline and who are not familiar with how to include files vs. directories
> in RPM package %files lists.

This underlines what I said recently about the quality of (at least some
of) the latest reviews.

Can you give me a list of packages and/or bugs so I can start working in
that?

Regards,
Christoph




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