Problems with core review

[Joe Orton]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:20:30AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 04:20, Joe Orton wrote:
> > I don't follow.  "packaging guideline policy" is all I'm blocked on, and
> > that is decided by the packaging committee, not "every other person
> > changing their package".  Where is the deadlock?
> 
> I don't see how you're blocked.  The Packaging Committee has set forth a best 
> practice in that you don't use $RPM_SOURCE_DIR, and rather you use $SOURCEx 
> macros.  

Use of $RPM_SOURCE_DIR is not covered in the packaging guidelines nor in 
the review guidelines.  It's flagged by rpmlint, which, as the 
guidelines *do* say, is often wrong.

joe