On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:18 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > For the record: > > 1. I disagreed with this change when it was first posted on fedora-devel. > > 2. I still disagree with this change > > 3. I actually maintain font packages (just in case some people still > > think that's relevant to comment on associated guidelines) > > 4. The associated scriplet barfed once in years of use by many > > packages (and not even on a stable release but during a rawhide > > update!), because of actual packaging bugs in one package. I don't > > think one transaction error in years is such a huge price to pay to > > keep our packages sane > > While I understand what you're saying, we adopted the policy that %post > should never ever fail, because it has the potential to really destroy a > large transaction. It was an accidental omission on that specific > section, which is why I corrected it. In fact, I thought I had already > done it a while ago, but had forgotten to. > > I have read your font guideline drafts, and I think they are rather > good. We simply just don't want any scriptlets to fail, no matter how > unlikely or contained the failure may be. > > Please don't take it personally. :) > Of course, the correct way to have scriptlets that don't fail is to write them in a way that doesn't fails, not the swipe the failure under the carpet... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
