[Fedora-packaging] remove source files

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Feb 10 23:01:30 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 00:59 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Scott Frankel <frankel at circlesfx.com> 
> wrote:
> > > I'm using a simple spec file to package a python-based application for
> > > distribution.  When passed to rpmbuild, it creates an rpm with both
> > > source (.py) and bytecode compiled (.pyc) files.  I'd like to remove
> > > the source files from the rpm.
> > 
> > The simple answer is to leave them, especially since the packaging
> > guidelines require them anyway.
> 
> I don't think they actually explicitly do.

They probably don't, but it's super bad form to not include them.

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Jesse Keating
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