Multiple directory ownership including filesystem package

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 20:50:23 UTC 2014


On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:36:15 +0200, Till Maas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that mulitple packages own /etc/bash_completion.d/ even though
> it is nowadays part of the filesystem package. From what I read from the
> Guidelines, it is not clear to me whether it is prohibited or not.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership

  | Packages must own all directories they put files in, except for:
  |
  |   any directories owned by the filesystem, man, or other explicitly
  |   created -filesystem packages 

> Should it be fixed?

Yes.

It isn't necessary to include the directory in the package anymore, since
the filesystem package owns that dir already nowadays.


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