Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines: The policy for systemd presets has been modified to merge the individual treatments of service, socket and timer units into one policy. The policy page was also moved into the packaging guidelines proper. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:DefaultServices * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3ADefaultServices&diff=413672&oldid=413670 * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/532 ----- Slightly modified the per-product configuration guidelines to account for changes in the os-release file. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Per-Product_Configuration * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3APer-Product_Configuration&diff=411980&oldid=410805 * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/520#comment:7 ----- New guidelines for the consistent usage of SSL certificates by applications have been added. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SSLCertificateHandling * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/480 ----- It is now mandatory that modules which support python3 be packaged for python3. Python modules which support both python2 and python3 may be packages for both, or just python3. Packaging of modules which support only python2 are unaffected. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3APython&diff=413621&oldid=409012 * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/526 ----- The AppData packaging guidelines have been updated to include information about addon packages, and to use appstream-util instead of appdata-validate. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AppData * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AAppData&diff=413661&oldid=398214 * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/527 ----- The R Packaging guidelines have been revised to indicate that the DESCRIPTION file should not be marked %doc, as it is actually required for operation of the R package and needs to be present even when installed with --excludedocs. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:R * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AR&diff=413668&oldid=234180 * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/535 ----- The BuildRequires section of the guidelines has been revised; the exceptions list is gone. The release engineering folks are free to define the buildroot and rpm is free to change its dependency list. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2 * https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AGuidelines&diff=413629&oldid=409506 * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/497 _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
