[JANITOR] Duplicate directory ownership cleanups

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Mon Jun 29 15:26:43 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 06/28/2009 07:25 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > I haven't referred to Perl packaging, but the general Packaging and
> Review
> > Guidelines. Unfortunately, you decided to cut off what I've quoted from
> > them. The part I find ambiguous.
>
> In my defense, I was focusing on the main guidelines, and the spirit of
> the problem which is this:
>
>        When there is a clear and direct dependency between Package A and
> Package B,
>        there is no need for Package A and Package B to own the same
> directory.
>
> I forgot to take into account the versioned perl pathing nightmare, and
> have been violently flamed for it. Thank you to the people who were able
> to coherently and politely point out the issue to me and not assume that
> my memory contains everything.
>
>
For the record, thank you for doing this :)  While we all tend to have our
own little bailiwicks, it's always good to see actions aimed at improving
distribution as a whole, and an effort like this definitely falls into that
category.

                                 -Chris
-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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