Ping? Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008 à 21:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > Hi all, > > When conf.avail was introduced in fontconfig we at Fedora mostly ignored > it and let font packages install their fontconfig rules directly in > conf.d > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FontsSpecTemplate > (the exception being the fontconfig package itself who perforce followed > the new conventions). > > Recent events made me revisit this point and try to heal the rift > between fontconfig and font packages by following common conventions. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_spec_template_correction_(fontconfig) > > In the course of the examination of this guideline change proposal, > however, it was identified that conf.avail as currently designed causes > our rpmlint package sanity check tool to emit errors. Those errors were > ok for Behdad to ignore, but really not ok for general packaging > guidelines we want to put into newbie packager hands. > > The core reason are that since we deploy policy through those fontconfig > files, we absolutely do not want users to change them (they're free to > un-reference the files in conf.d, or write their own fontconfig rules in > different files, but we instruct rpm to stomp on old versions of our > files on updates). Since we mark those files as non-modifiable (%config > and not %config(noreplace) in rpm speak) rpmlint considers them as data, > not configuration, and complains of their location under /etc. > > After thinking a bit about it I feel rpmlint is right — since we don't > let users modify our fontconfig files they're not dynamic configuration, > just static data users can choose to activate or not. > > We could of course add an exception in rpmlint just for conf.avail, but > I'd rather have fontconfig be fixed to follow more closely the FHS. > Exceptions ultimately pile on till you have a lot of cruft to clean up > which is not my definition of fun. > > Can conf.avail and its contents be moved in /usr/share/something in the > next version of fontconfig? > > See also: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes/20081021 > > Regards, > -- Nicolas Mailhot
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