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Things to be considered for Packaging Guidelines
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| Task Name | Owner | Target Date | Notes |
| Explicit Requires | abadger1999 | Next meeting | PackagingDrafts/ExplicitRequires. After FESCo feedback, restricted to library packages. |
| Source URL Update | abadger1999 | Next meeting | Troublesome source URL packaging guideline draft. Section on dealing with URLs that can't go into the Source: line. |
| Common Package Names | abadger1999 | Next meeting | Common package names packaging guideline draft |
| FontSpecTemplate outside of Packaging | abadger1999 | Next meeting | Packaging:FontsSpecTemplate redirects to a page outside of Packaging:. It also says it is obsoleted by Spec templates which are currently not available. |
| JavaScript | abadger1999 | Discuss | JavaScript libraries packaging guideline draft Libraries Packaged. See discussion page for Unresolved Issues |
| Type Specific Guidelines | abadger1999 | Discuss | User:Toshio/Type_Specific_Guidelines Talking with docs about this idea. Will send mail to packaging-list for input when we have something firmer. |
| Using Alternatives | rathann | Discuss | PackagingDrafts/UsingAlternatives |
| Queued but Unowned | |||
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| Task Name | Owner | Target Date | Notes |
| libexecdir in FHS | nobody | started, first feedback from FHS' editors, ongoing | Get involved in FHS discussions to resurrect libexec in the FHS: Mail thread Is this link correct? issue moved up to FHS' bugzilla: Bug #101 |
| Python virtual Provides | nobody | Later | Python virtual provides draft Panu has been looking at this as part of rpm itself. |
| CFlags Prohibition | nobody | unknown | Don't manually set CFLAGS in the spec, %configure should do it for you. |
| Patch Best Practice | nobody | unknown | Remember that "Patch" is the same as "Patch0". You should consider using Patch0 for the first patch, since it removes any possible confusion as to which patch you're using. This is not required. |
| Files Generated by Scriptlets | nobody | unknown | Policy on cleaning up things introduced in %post (and not creating files in %post.) |
| aclocal | nobody | unknown | Should packages that place files under /usr/share/aclocal be required to have a Require: /usr/share/aclocal?
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| rpmbuild --with/--without | nobody | unknown | Encourage using rpmbuild --with/--without for conditionally build parts of a spec. Discourage using --define 'with/without_xxx 1' and similar custom magic. |
| scons guidelines | nobody | unknown | In the announcement thread for the cmake guidelines, it was suggested that scons guidelines in the same vein would be useful. |
| autoconf/automake usage | nobody | unknown | Policy on using autoconf/automake in %setup or %build sections of a spec file and usage of older autoconf/automake releases. PackagingDrafts/AutoConf |
| Tabled (On indefinite hold) | |||
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| Task Name | Owner | Target Date | Notes |
| arch specific script packages | f13 | unknown | Packages containing scripts that require programs or features which are not available on all platforms should not be noarch. Example: system-config-boot which requires grub |
| iconcache | RexDieter | tabled | update icon (cache) handling / policy, PackagingDrafts/ScriptletSnippets/iconcache |
| Files in /srv | JesseKeating | soon | What files should be allowed to be placed in /srv/ ? |