On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:44:26PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 16:37, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > > > Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 15:29, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit : > >> Hello, > > > > Hi, > > > > Thank you for adapting your packages and providing feedback! > > > >> I am converting my font packages to the new guidelines and hit some > >> rpmlint warnings that appear to be template related. Specifically, > >> I > >> followed the /etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-fonts-multi.spec from > >> fontpackages-devel that creates absolute symlinks between > >> /etc/fonts/conf.d/$font.conf and > >> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/$font.conf > >> rpmlint moans about the absolute symlink and wants a relative one. > >> I > >> don't really have an opinion about that and could not find any > >> fedora > >> policy on this one [1]. > > > > I didn't find a simple (for me and packagers) way to create relative > > symlinks here. Individual packages are not supposed to know the values > > of the directory macros since FPC asked for them in part to hide > > future value changes from individual packagers. > > drat, should have read your link before commenting. > I'm not sure how ok it is to add a dep to symlinks for > fontpackages-devel. It looks harmless enough, but is this package even > in all our spins? Just for completeness, the link in question is http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/25 > I suppose if I change the templates to use the symlinks command to > avoid the rpmlint warning, I need to notify FPC at least (even if it's > a minor change, it's still a guidelines change) -- Sarantis -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
