[JANITOR] Duplicate directory ownership cleanups

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jun 26 10:42:57 UTC 2009


Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 06/26/2009 06:07 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> Hi, I'm Scruffy, the Fedora Janitor.
>>> Today (and likely, over the next few days/weeks), I'll be going through
>>> and making minor changes to packages in rawhide (and only in rawhide)
>>> where there are cases of unnecessary duplicate directory ownership.
>>> Please do not be alarmed!
>> I am very alarmed because I think what you just committed to some perl
>> modules is simply plain wrong.
>>
>> Perl modules _must_ own all directories they install *.pm under %perl_*
>> because they in general are entirely independent and do not share a
>> strict hierarchy!
>>
>> Ralf
>>
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> I think you may have missed the part of his email where he said "I won't
> be fixing cases where the duplicate directory ownership is
> acceptable, like much of the perl structure, so you don't have to worry
> about that."
Well, ... he just has committed patches in which he does exactly the 
opposite.

He already started to break perl packages.

Ralf





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