On Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 23:33, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > This goes out specifically to the Fedora Packaging Committee Members, > but is certainly open for comments from all. > > We've got a lot of drafts that are queued up for next Tuesday's meeting, > so it would be very helpful if you read them all well in advance: > > As always, this list is pulled from > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GuidelinesTodo (which embeds the > table from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DraftsTodo ): > > ASCII Naming Guidelines (spot) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ASCIINaming > Perl Guidelines (spot) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Perl Both look fine. > Eclipse Plugin Guidelines (spot) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/EclipsePlugins The build commands (java calls) look horribly complicated. I'm quite convinced these should be made into rpm macros. > OpenOffice.org extensions guidelines (Caolan McNamara) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/OpenOffice.orgExtensions Looks fine. > Secure BuildRoot (Lubomir Kundrak) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SecureBuildRoot As discussed in this thread, I think this should be embedded into %install and %clean and the Buildroot: tag should just go away. > Register VirtualProvides (Patrice Dumas) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ProvidesList OK. > SysV-style Initscript Guidelines (spot) : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SysVInitScript Complicated, but I guess OK. > I don't have the Java Guidelines draft on the list yet, but I hope that > it will be ready by next Tuesday: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Java Not ready, I guess? > Next Tuesday will undoubtedly be a longer meeting than normal, so please > be prepared. I can't promise anything, but I might be able to whip up some patches for those macros I mentioned above in a few days. Regards, R. -- Fedora contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
