[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Dec 10 12:48:11 UTC 2010


On 12/10/2010 12:19 PM, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> 2010/12/10 Orcan Ogetbil<oget.fedora at gmail.com>:
>> [...]

> On a related note, rpmlint also warns
Warnings aren't errors ... in many cases, empty files are an indication 
of something having gone wrong somewhere, a package doing something 
improperly or a packager doing something improperly.

(don't know if we have a
> corresponding guideline) about empty files,
No, we don't have them.

> even when in %doc, but in
> some cases these might indeed be wanted.
I would not want to exclude this might be the case, but I am having 
difficulties to imagine any.

Ralf



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