Update the guidelines

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

Dear all,

I would like to propose to update (or mention) some points in the R
packaging guidelines.

* Mention something about the tex files which are not utf-8 and don't
necessarily have to be converted
see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00741.html

* Mention something about the -devel package where the headers don't
necessarily have to moved to %{_datadir} since R looks for them in
%{_libdir}.
see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-r-devel-list/2009-March/msg00001.html

What is your opinion on these changes ?

What is the process to propose such changes/updates ?

Thanks,

Best regards,

Pierre

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 19:59 +0100, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to propose to update (or mention) some points in the R
> packaging guidelines.
> Mention something about the tex files which are not utf-8 and don't
>
> necessarily have to be converted
> see:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00741.html
> Mention something about the -devel package where the headers don't
>
> necessarily have to moved to %{_datadir} since R looks for them in
> %{_libdir}.
> see:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-r-devel-list/2009-March/msg00001.html

I am planning on writing down a proposal to add those remarks to the
guidelines.

In addition I though we could also :
 - Mention about the version which in R might contains '-' which should
be replaced in Fedora
 - Mention R2spec as tool to create spec file
 - Mention the new sources of library (the two r-forges)

Do you see any other points to be added/changed ?

I will send to the list the proposal once done.

Best regards,

Pierre

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:56 +0200, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 19:59 +0100, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like to propose to update (or mention) some points in the R
> > packaging guidelines.
> > Mention something about the tex files which are not utf-8 and don't
> >
> > necessarily have to be converted
> > see:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00741.html
> > Mention something about the -devel package where the headers don't
> >
> > necessarily have to moved to %{_datadir} since R looks for them in
> > %{_libdir}.
> > see:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-r-devel-list/2009-March/msg00001.html
>
> I am planning on writing down a proposal to add those remarks to the
> guidelines.
>
> In addition I though we could also :
> Mention about the version which in R might contains '-' which should
>
> be replaced in Fedora
> Mention R2spec as tool to create spec file
> Mention the new sources of library (the two r-forges)
>
> Do you see any other points to be added/changed ?

I put all this together here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ProposalUpdateRGuidelines
and also there thus:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DraftsTodo

I put target date as 'Discuss' waiting to hear from you but there is a
meeting tomorrow if we make it on time :)

Feel free to react of it :)

Best regards,

Pierre