On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 23:17 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: >Some comments after a quick read-through: > >1) Version and release-tags: Package version should obviously follow >upstream version in normal, sane cases but especially things like 1.0- >pre1 need special rules to handle without epochs, those should be >covered in this doc. The old fedora.us packaging guidelines doc, section >C-3 (http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines) pretty much >covers these cases if you drop the 0.fdr tags from the rules. The old C-3 section seemed sane, so I dropped the 0.fdr tagging, cleaned up the rules a bit, and included them. >2) While at versions and releases: can we *please* have a standard on >release-tags. Current FC trees have a wild variety of things in there >like "3jpp_2fc", in general a truly random FC3 vs fc2 dist-tags for some >packages (disttags are just fine when needed but can we standardize on >lowercase like with package names, please :) .. and so on. Just do >'rpm -qp --qf "%{release}\n" *|sort -u' on current FC-devel RPMS >directory for giggles. Please let's have a standard of allowed >characters in release and version tags as well since we're having one >for names? Does the current release standard seem sane? Numeric incrementals, starting at 1, with the exception case of packages having non-numeric versions? That way, it keeps all the junk out of the Release field, and any non-numeric characters that do appear are there for a valid reason. >3) Addon packages: when a package is renamed, eg 'adodb' -> 'php-adodb' >it *might* be a good idea to add the original name as a "Provides: >adodb" so people looking for upstream naming can find it more easily. The "Renaming a Package" section covers this. >Oh and FWIW current rawhide contains quite a few packages other than >pam_ and SDL_ with underscores in the name (see below). Of these the >various apache mod_foo packages are numerous enough to warrant an >exception rule of their own, others should perhaps be renamed? Added Apache httpd to the pam/SDL rule, added a "packages with locales" rule, and added an "upstream name uses underscore" rule. ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Sales Engineer || GPG Fingerprint: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
