On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm sure we could ask the FPC to add this to guidelines. >> > I've filed such a ticket, please feel free to add comments: >> > >> > https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/295 >> >> It's reasonable, but is missing an important feature. "All source >> materials for the RPM must also be contained in the new SRPM, >> preferably as source material." This creates a preference for source >> rather than .jar, .war, or .gem files, but I think that's really >> desirable. > > The requirement to build from source is already explicit: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries > > Björn Persson Thanks for the pointer! Of course, that leaves out hte problem of "rubygems", ".jar" files, and other published binary inclusions masquerading as source files in the SRPM. But it's a clearly written guideline, thank you. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
