-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/2016 02:25 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote: > During a Package Review I was doing on a python package, Kevin > Kofler joined the conversation to point out that was wrong to > suggest that the python packages should remove the egg-info > provided by upstream. I was a little surprised by this so I > started to look around and I found a wiki page > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python_Eggs) confirming > that this is an old policy that is now deprecated. > > Believing not to be the only packager that is used to delete the > upstream egg-info folder, I scanned Fedora RPM specs and this is > what I found: 459 packages do it. > > Since in the wiki page it's specified that this behavior is > deprecated, I think all packagers having packages that delete > egg-info files should improve their packages. > > This is the complete list of packages doing so. > Some (many?) of these packages only remove egg-info during %setup to ensure that it gets regenerated by the %build phase (this is particularly important for packages that may patch the requirements from upstream to be more flexible with versions). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlaX+OQACgkQeiVVYja6o6MrdACfU1sHCuJiRJf8z5UDLCK70Eo+ oXEAn1bKhFc96fLDcriLncXH3Sdzw3sD =6b9y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
