Re: Should packages providing appdata files own /usr/share/metainfo?

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On 11/07/2017 03:23 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> During a package review rpmlint noted that the package did not own
> /usr/share/metainfo.
> 
> A cursory "rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/metainfo" returned no results. 
> 
> I know rpm can handle multiple packages owning a directory these days
> but I don't think it is correct for a package only providing an appdata
> file to own /usr/share/metainfo...
> 
> So what package should?

It's already owned by filesystem, in F27+. Just list
/usr/share/metainfo/* in your package's %files and ignore the warnings
on older Fedoras.

-- 
Kalev
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