On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > The only problem with that is that just about every packaging guideline > > has _some_ valid exceptions (that's why they're all guidelines...) and > > it's rather hard to build exceptions into an automatic testing system in > > a way which doesn't get horribly crufty in a hurry. > > If exceptions become a problem because they are applied to many packages, > it would still be possible to adjust the guidelines or mark the packages > with special metadata comments in their .spec files. Then packagers would > need to make use of an exception _explicitly_, showing that what they do > is intentional. Yup, indeed - this is the approach MDV uses for its rpmlint checks (you can code an exception into the spec file if it's justified). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
