Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Merge Review: rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226377 ------- Additional Comments From pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-10-08 05:05 EST ------- 1) I've requested legal to comment on the rpm license quite a while ago, haven't heard anything official back. The licensing is complex because of many bundled components but the murkiest part has to do with "lib subdirectory" dual licensing which doesn't really make sense these days. The "GPL/LGPL with exceptions" is about as close as it gets unless the actual license is changed which is another story... 2) The full URL added to cvs now, but it still uses macros for the %{name}-%{version} part, updating the version there manually only leads to stupid mistakes (been there... ;) 3) Yes, popt has been split out in upstream HEAD, but it'll stay in the 4.4.x branch to avoid large changes in maintenance versions. 4) /usr/src/redhat|fedora|packages|rpm needs to die as a concept, we don't want to encourage building packages as root. A saner default setup is needed but it's too late for F8. 5) AFAIK nothing in Fedora needs static rpm libs, guess they could go. 6) The rpmlint whining can indeed be ignored for most part. I'm curious about the file-not-utf8 complaint as doxygen (as of 1.5.2) is supposed to always create UTF-8 for html. The configure-without-libdir-spec is due to rpm configure messing with lib/lib64 itself, preventing the use of --libdir (it'll lead to things like /usr/lib6464 on multilib systems). Fixed in rpm.org HEAD but not going to happen for 4.4.x to avoid breaking legacy expectations in maintenance releases. The biggest remaining question is probably the use of rpm user+group for all sorts of files. Doesn't IMO make much sense, the only place where it might theoretically be useful is rpmdb itself but you can't install anything without being root so... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review