[Fedora-packaging] remove source files

Scott Frankel frankel at circlesfx.com
Mon Feb 15 21:50:49 UTC 2010


Hi all,

Please excuse the naive question:

Is the upshot of this conversation that RPMs should not be used to  
deliver closed-source applications written in Python?

Thanks
Scott



On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:07:58AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 February 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>
>>> And yes, the Guidelines aren't explicit about needing to include  
>>> them...
>>> it's been standard practice since forever.  If people feel a need  
>>> to make
>>> it explicit write a draft.
>>
>> Here goes, insert after "Byte compiled files":
>>
>> Source files
>> ------------
>>
>> Source files (*.py) must be included in the same packages as the  
>> byte-compiled
>> versions of them.
>>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_py_removal%28draft%29
>
> Feel free to modify it, I was aiming at pulling several elements on  
> the page
> that seemed to belong together into one section rather than changing  
> the
> meaning of anything you wrote.
>
> -Toshio
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