Packaging Committee Meeting Summary (2010-02-03)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 23:46 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 17:14 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:55:25PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 13:28 -0800, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> > > > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 22:19 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > > > A side-effect, is that spec parsers that read the file in a buildroot
> > > > > which is missing the package providing the macro, will sometimes think
> > > > > the macro call is part of the subpackage %summary. This is
> > > > > unfortunate,
> > > > > but I don't see how to avoid it without making another part of the
> > > > > spec
> > > > > harder for us. 
> > > > 
> > > > So long as it doesn't disrupt what is viewed as the summary from the
> > > > srpm stored in Koji, I think you'll be fine.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, I dimly remember seing the macro call appear in the past
> > > in the summary shown in packagedb or koji (don't remember the package
> > > name, and it may not occur with new koji/packagedb versions).
> > >
> > Easy to check, what's a package that does this macro directly after Summary:
> > or %description?
> 
> adf-accanthis-fonts is probably the most recent "complex" font package
> but I wouldn't vouch the declaration happens exactly in the same order
> in all font packages. The general pattern is the same but packagers have
> different tools and habits so slight variations exist.

Anyway here is one occurence of what I worried about in all its glory

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=130814

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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