Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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Many changes have been made to the Ruby packaging guidelines to reflect the current state of Ruby packaging.
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby * https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/710
Note that the macros required for some of those guidelines might still be making their way into the stable releases.
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The Libraries and Applications section of the guidelines was modified to favor independent packaging of applications and to discourage separate graphical applications from having dependencies on each other.
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Libraries_and_Applicatio... * https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/694
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An exception allowing the use of a specific subdirectory in /etc/opt by Chrome native messaging extensions was approved.
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Limited_usage_of_.2Fopt.... * https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/767
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