Hi Kevin, On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:26 AM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > > I don't think that packagers should *ever* be in the business of > > modifying the content of users' $HOME directories. > > In fact this has happened before in the past, leading to: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_no_files_or_directories_under_srv_usrlocal_or_homeuser > ie, it's forbidden. Dont do this. > > The app itself/upstream might come up with a way to detect the old > settings and offer to fix them for users? Or just do so... ? I was aware of our policy, in my panic I was asking if there was a way to bend the rules to get out of this catch-22. Both of Kalev's sober suggestions made me go "duh!" (hats off to Kalev) and I'm going to hold off on the update until I've discussed this with the upstream developer. I am so grateful for "git reset --hard HEAD~" right now… Thank you all, Alex _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
