On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 20:16 +0200, Miloslav TrmaÄ wrote: > >> FHS does not require every RPM package to not add arbitrary >> directories, but Fedora packaging guidelines do. ÂWe have a packaging >> standard. ÂThis change violates that packaging standard, so there are >> three possibilities: > > Can you cite this guideline? All I can find is a requirement that > "Fedora packages must follow the FHS" - which is a somewhat vague > requirement, and doesn't seem to be clarified. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Filesystem_Layout What more would you want? "Fedora packages must follow the FHS. 'Must follow' means that if you don't follow it you violate it?" (Yes, this apparently requires that the data should be in /var/run, and the data really can't be there. Still, that's a reason to fix the packaging standard, not to ignore it.) Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
