On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:01:32 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: > Well, isn't the rule is actually simpler than that: any package owning > a directory owned by another package is broken. It used to be like that, but nowadays the guidelines aren't that strict anymore. See "multiple ownership" here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_directory_is_owned_by_a_package_which_is_not_required_for_your_package_to_function In order to have only a single package being the only owner of a directory, there would be an inflation of either the "filesystem" package or additional "-filesystem" subpackages elsewhere, which one could depend on _only_ for proper directory ownership. This would create overhead. To make fedora-review be extra careful when finding a %files entry %{_libdir}/* might be worthwhile. Such an entry would include files in /usr/lib/debug (where %_libdir = /usr/lib) and also bears a risk of duplicating files included in subpackages. It shouldn't be too hard for a packager to come up with a safer more-appropriate wildcard than '*'. -- Fedora release 19 (Rawhide) - Linux 3.8.0-0.rc7.git3.1.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.34 0.54 0.48 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
