On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:20:50PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > I believe it should be a MUST with exceptions. Review Guidelines are > more succinct and therefore less prone to a slip up when being written > up. Even then, there have been times when a Review Guideline uses the > uppercase, bold '''MUST''' to show that it's a MUST but then used should > in the sentence describing what needs to be done. > > The only current exception is: > """ > Note that if you are updating a library in a stable release (not devel) > and the package already contains *.la files, removing the *.la files > should be treated as an API/ABI change > """ There's also an exception for these in the MinGW guidelines, although (in hindsight) it's wrong and we've been removing the *.la files in those packages. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/MinGW#Libraries_.28DLLs.29 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/Packaging_issues#.2A.la_files Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
