Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jan 5 18:13:34 UTC 2010


On 01/05/2010 05:48 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> On the other hand, with the
>>> guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to
>>> comply with it ...
>>
>> Isn't that a chicken/egg problem?
>
> It really is. I mean, we could create the "Packaging Police" to run
> around and enforce the guidelines by force (either by fixing them
> manually,
I would not want to call it a "packaging police", but a "tag team" which 
fixes the packages

== IMO, that's the way to go.

> or by threatening maintainers until they do it), but is that
> really what we want?

Yes, people have had enough time to fix their packages - It's time for 
action.

Ralf




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