On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Igor Gnatenko
<ignatenkobrain(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> As a casual/moderate Fedora packager, how do I know if my
packages
> need
> cleanup? Possibly if I thought there were problems I would have done
> it
> already. Is there some sort of quick check people can run on their
> own
> packages to even know if they might be candidates to ask for help?
That's great question! I would say like "if you don't know how your
spec works, it feels messy, hard to understand -- it needs cleanup" 😉
Perhaps a more automated way to check would be to have a script that
checks for certain deprecated syntax in a RPM spec?
For example, I imagine specs with a "defattr" in their files section
likely need to be cleaned up. Or a Group tag. Or no %license macro.
This suggests that the package probably needs to be modernized and may
have other things that need to be cleaned up.
Ben Rosser