Summary of the 2008-10-21 Packaging Committee meeting
Jason L Tibbitts III
tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed Oct 22 01:42:35 UTC 2008
Meeting minutes and full logs of the 2008-10-21 FPC meeting are
online:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Minutes/20081021
Issues pending FESCo ratification:
* Eclipse plugin guideline modification
** Reported on-list; archive is at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2008-October/msg00121.html
** These tweak the guidelines to fix a few typos, clean the templates
up a bit and accommodate changes in Eclipse 3.4.
* Desktop File guideline modification
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/DesktopFileVendor
** This removes language which many interpreted as requiring most
desktop files to be installed with --vendor=fedora.
Other discussions:
* Cpack guidelines
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/CmakeCpack
** The committee was unclear as to how this applied to packaging
guidelines at all, as it seems to contain tips for upstream
developers instead of instructions for Fedora packagers.
* Tweaks to the specfile template for fonts
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_spec_template_correction_(fontconfig)
** This alters the template for font packages to deal with issues
surrounding the /etc/fonts/conf.avail directory.
** FPC agreed with the proposal but had some suggestions; these will
be addressed and the issue will be raised later.
* New guideline relating to generically named packages and files.
** Tough to actually write a guideline involving the use of common
sense as applied to things like this.
** Jason will draft a proposal for consideration soon.
- J<
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