[Fedora-packaging] how to handle a common (base) package

[Jon Ciesla]

Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>   
>> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>> During the review [1] of the redland-bindings package , I came across
>>> a situation where there are common %doc files that need to be shared
>>> across different bindings. These are:
>>> %doc AUTHORS COPYING COPYING.LIB ChangeLog
>>> %doc LICENSE.txt NEWS README TODO
>>> %doc LICENSE.html NEWS.html README.html TODO.html
>>> %doc LICENSE-2.0.txt NOTICE
>>> %doc RELEASE.html
>>>
>>> The package has perl, php, python and ruby bindings, each of which has
>>> its own subpackage, i.e.
>>> perl-redland
>>> php-redland
>>> python-redland
>>> ruby-redland
>>> and the above are the only common files across. The question is, where
>>> do these files go?
>>>
>>> Shall we make a common package and make all the binding subpackages
>>> depend on it? If so, what shall be the name of the common package? I
>>> need to add that some of the bindings have different licenses, so some
>>> of the above license files may be irrelevant for some of the bindings.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Orcan
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659082
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>> Put the universally common ones in a -common subpackage, and put the
>> ones that only apply to some in those subpackages, I think.
>>
>>     
>
> Okay, then what will be the license of the -common subpackage?
>
> Orcan
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Whatever license upstream says the main code is under.  If that isn't 
clear, ask them.

J

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