I'm fine with this change. Next fontconfig release should happen sometime this winter I guess. I'll make this change in my tree that I will then make available to Keith for review and release. behdad Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Ping? > > Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008 à 21:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> When conf.avail was introduced in fontconfig we at Fedora mostly ignored >> it and let font packages install their fontconfig rules directly in >> conf.d >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FontsSpecTemplate >> (the exception being the fontconfig package itself who perforce followed >> the new conventions). >> >> Recent events made me revisit this point and try to heal the rift >> between fontconfig and font packages by following common conventions. >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_spec_template_correction_(fontconfig) >> >> In the course of the examination of this guideline change proposal, >> however, it was identified that conf.avail as currently designed causes >> our rpmlint package sanity check tool to emit errors. Those errors were >> ok for Behdad to ignore, but really not ok for general packaging >> guidelines we want to put into newbie packager hands. >> >> The core reason are that since we deploy policy through those fontconfig >> files, we absolutely do not want users to change them (they're free to >> un-reference the files in conf.d, or write their own fontconfig rules in >> different files, but we instruct rpm to stomp on old versions of our >> files on updates). Since we mark those files as non-modifiable (%config >> and not %config(noreplace) in rpm speak) rpmlint considers them as data, >> not configuration, and complains of their location under /etc. >> >> After thinking a bit about it I feel rpmlint is right — since we don't >> let users modify our fontconfig files they're not dynamic configuration, >> just static data users can choose to activate or not. >> >> We could of course add an exception in rpmlint just for conf.avail, but >> I'd rather have fontconfig be fixed to follow more closely the FHS. >> Exceptions ultimately pile on till you have a lot of cruft to clean up >> which is not my definition of fun. >> >> Can conf.avail and its contents be moved in /usr/share/something in the >> next version of fontconfig? >> >> See also: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes/20081021 >> >> Regards, >> _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
