On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:01:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:38:11PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:05:48PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I've started a page for updating the packaging guidelines.
> >
> >
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/OCaml
> >
> > At the moment it's a straight copy of the packaging guidelines except
> > that I've updated 'ocaml-foolib.spec' from my private copy of that
> > file.
> >
> > Some ideas:
> >
> > - how useful is the whole '%opt' stuff now that we have native
> > compilation on every Fedora architecture?
> >
> > - use of chrpath and strip
> >
> > - should we finally distribute ocaml-find-requires/provides with
> > upstream RPM? They haven't changed in a long time.
> >
> > - note about some common rpmlint errors:
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433783
> >
> > - ISO-8859-1 - should we ban it from *.ml & *.mli files?
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434694
> >
> > - camlp4/camlp5 syntax extensions are a bit different from a
> > distribution point of view. They usually don't need a -devel
> > package, and they require *.cmo files to be distributed.
> > And sometimes they should be noarch.
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435431
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435299
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435293
>
> And while I remember:
>
> - ocaml-pcre-devel pulls in ocaml-pcre and pcre.
> However it doesn't pull in pcre-devel, so you cannot actually
> 'devel'op software with this package: programs will fail to link
> because of missing -lpcre. This may be a general problem with
> all our packages which use C libs, although for some reason
> I've only hit it with this one.
And:
- certain binaries should not be stripped
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435559
And:
- Clarify where documentation should go. Currently my practice has
been to put just the license file (if any) in the main package's %doc,
and the license file plus all other documentation & examples in
the devel subpackage. This duplicates (only) the license file, but
that seems acceptable since we shouldn't distribute software without
its license.
Rich.
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