On 08/19/2015 12:45 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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. gnome-shell-extension-common is an internal subpackage for the gnome-shell-extensions source package. Please don't make other packages that come from different source packages depend on it. -common is only split out because it contains translations shared by all the extensions that come from the gnome-shell-extensions source package. I went ahead and added an empty extensions directory (and search-providers directory) to gnome-shell itself, http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gnome-shell.git/commit/?id=a5548a25bf3aaa54b315463f19bab05c08ccddee That should make it easier for extensions packages - just use 'Requires: gnome-shell' and the directory gets created along with gnome-shell. -- Hope this helps, Kalev -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
