On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:57:33 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > Enrico Scholz wrote : > > > Tom 'spot' Callaway writes: > > > > > MUST: Packages must not own files or directories already owned by > > > other packages. The rule of thumb here is that the first package to be > > > installed should own the files or directories that other packages may > > > rely upon. This means, for example, that no package in Fedora Extras > > > should ever share ownership with any of the files or directories owned > > > by the filesystem or man package. If you feel that you have a good > > > reason to own a file or directory that another package owns, then > > > please present that at package review time. > > > > > > This is a policy that has been enforced for sometime, but never actually > > > added to the guidelines (until now). > > > > What is with directories like > > > > /usr/share/locale/C > > /usr/share/locale/nl_BE > > /usr/share/locale/uk_UA > > My guess : Let %find_lang do its magic for these, and if it owns them, then > get that macro fixed ;-) I'm sure it is the opposite. %find_lang only includes the message object files, not the directories. And therefore, any of the locale directories are unowned unless glibc-common or a filesystem package includes them. (btw, some packages also add locales not supported by glibc)
