[Bug 550582] Review Request: dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian Linux

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--- Comment #3 from leigh scott   2009-12-27 05:59:17 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Just a few comments:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over...
> Could you reduce the %files a bit?
> e.g.: %{_bindir}/dpkg-*
>       %{_mandir}/*/man*/dpkg-*
> and so on.
> It will be easier to follow, and maybe the compression format of the man
>
> pages
>   changes and you need to rename all *.gz to something else.
> There is a new version upstream.
> How do you create the patch?
> (Maybe sed would be enought. Most of the changes are only in the *.po file,
>
> which will change quite often...)

You are wrong, doing this will mess the package up.