[Fedora-packaging] Re: Re: iconcache scriptlets

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:27 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:05 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:06 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> >> In any case, nothing would break.  At worst, gtk apps would suffer a
> >> >> performance penalty, at least until gtk2 is fixed:
> >> >> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/170335
> >> >> (a personal packaging pet-peave).
> >> 
> >> > Yes.  Which is a regression.
> >> > I agree that 170335 should be fixed, though.
> >> 
> >> Bingo.  Bugs should be addressed in their proper domain, and I would
> >> argue strongly that the proper domain in the gtk2 (bug #170335) case is
> >> *gtk2*, not Packaging/Guidelines.
> > 
> > We have had and continue to have many pieces of guidelines which are
> > held up by or written to account for bugs in support packages (rpm,
> > scriptlets in Core packages, etc).
> ...
> > In this case, I'd be okay with the changes to iconcache with
> 
> or I would have no problem with
> 0) hold publication of the new guideline pending one of:
>   a) wait (indefinitely) until gtk2 bug is fixed
>   b) give gtk2 maintainer reasonable time to fix (2-4 weeks?), then just do
> it.  
>   c) (I'm almost serious): make gtk2-fixbug170335-hack package, and use
>   Requires(post,postun): gtk2-fixbug170335-hack
>   (:
> 
I could live with holding the guidelines pending updates to the core
packages as well.  I'd add d) hicolor-iconcache utilitizes xdg-utils.

> If possible, I'd rather avoid complicating the guidelines (and packagers)
> lives with the, imo, unecessary extra baggage entailed with 1 or 2, by
> introducing a new Requires(post,postun): xdg-utils
> But, if the rest of the comittee is agreeable to the idea, I'll play along.
> 
True but there's a good possibility the changes won't be implemented for
all versions of FC anyhow.  That means that we'll have to carry separate
instructions for FCX and FCY no matter what.

-Toshio
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