On 07/27/2010 08:50 AM, Iain Arnell wrote: > 2010/7/23 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hello, >> I'd like to sent Draft for packaging guidelines for review. There were >> added some changes a long time ago and it would be nice to have it >> official. If there won't be any comments, I'll sent it at the end of >> next week to comitee. >> >> The draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDraft:Perl >> >> It would be great to have a review from someone who has English as first >> language. > I've had a look and made a few uncontroversial tweaks to spelling and grammar. > Thank you. > But I've also got a couple of slightly more controversial comments: > > Since we no longer have perl version numbers in @INC, I think the > whole "Directory Ownership" section should be updated to reflect the > current situation. With a few simple examples. Maybe something like: > > In general, perl's hierarchical naming convention for modules does not > necessarily imply any hierarchical dependencies. For example, > perl-YAML and perl-YAML-Tiny both install files to > /usr/share/perl5/YAML; but perl-YAML-Tiny does not require perl-YAML > (its whole raison d'être is to be a smaller alternative) so both > packages need to own /usr/share/perl5/YAML directory. > > Even where there is some form of hierarchy, the split between > arch-dependent and noarch packages can cause additional problems. > Although perl-Moose-Autobox does require perl-Moose, > perl-Moose-Autobox is a noarch package installing files to > /usr/share/perl5/Moose whereas perl-Moose is architecture-dependent > and installs its files to /usr/lib/perl5/Moose. Again, both packages > need to own their top-level Moose directory. > > I removed the actual part about directory ownership, because it was useless and long. If you can sum it up in shorter paragraph, please do so. > And I wonder if it's worth trying to clarify the role of perl-sig. > Since we don't have explicit group permissions in pkgdb, adding > perl-sig to initial-cc may be understood to mean that perl-sig > provenpackagers are effectively co-maintainers and may update packages > as and when necessary. > > I believe cut length of packaging guidelines is good thing. I've just mentioned Perl SIG above. But I didn't find any wiki page about us, only Chris Draft https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChrisWeyl/PerlDraft#Fedora_Perl_SIG_Mission Do we have something better? Marcela -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
