On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 at 16:12, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 at 13:12, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Wouldn't it be possible to have packaging guidelines versioned by > > Fedora version? If this would be accompanied by the rule, that .spec > > files can't be shared as well (using some conditions), this would > > allow us to have much faster evolution of our packaging. I'll give > > you a few examples. > > +1 on versioning guidelines per Fedora version > -1 on prohibiting spec file sharing across branches To expand on my -1, your rationale does not explain why we should ban people from conditionalizing certain parts of their spec files to follow guidelines for any Fedora and EPEL version they wish to maintain their packages for. Yes, it adds to maintenance overhead, but the reduced overhead due to having one spec file instead of up to 6[1] balances that. And people are free to use separate, differing specs for each branch already. [1] rawhide, branched (Fn+1), Fn, Fn-1, EPEL-6, EPEL-5 Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
