[Fedora-packaging] Re: New draft packaging guidelines for OCaml

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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.

Rich.

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