Do we want to treat the "gnome-shell-extension-common" package as an "artificial filesystem" package to be required by all gnome-shell-extension-* packages to get directory ownership right? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_directory_is_owned_by_a_package_which_is_not_required_for_your_package_to_function [...] Inspite of its package name not ending with "-filesystem" (would that be a MUST?), the package description suggests that it serves as a filesystem package: $ rpm -qi gnome-shell-extension-common|tail -2 optional functionality to GNOME Shell. Common files and directories needed by extensions are provided here. It's only a single directory, and the "gnome-shell" parent dir is pulled in via a dependency: $ rpmls gnome-shell-extension-common|grep ^d drwxr-xr-x /usr/share/doc/gnome-shell-extension-common drwxr-xr-x /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions $ rpm -qR gnome-shell-extension-common|grep -v ^rpm gnome-shell >= 3.17.4 [...] It has been pointed out during review that the package is not '''an "official" filesystem-package'''. And packagers happily take existing packages as example. A single gnome-shell-extension package by somebody from Red Hat owns the directory instead, giving the excuse to do it like that, too. All other extension packages add a dependency on that "artificial filesystem" package. It would be good, if the gnome shell extensions addon package guidelines commented on this. Unless we don't care about such directory ownership issues at all anymore. Then everybody is free to add "multiple ownership" in random ways. But so many complex guidelines -- for what? That there are filesystem packages such as "hicolor-icon-theme" is not pretty already. What other filesystem packages are not named -filesystem? Trying to explain that to [new] packagers can become quite a task. [...] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Addon_Packages_.28gnome_shell_extensions.29 Addon Packages (gnome shell extensions) Packages that extend gnome shell should begin with the prefix gnome-shell-extension-. In particular, this prefix should not be pluralized (ie: it should not be gnome-shell-extensions). -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
