[Fedora-packaging] [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Tom Callaway]

On 04/13/2012 10:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, if it has to be in a new subpackage then I'm just going to drop it.
> The entire rationale for the stub was to make things "just work" for
> people who don't read the release notes.  If it requires they install
> a new subpackage they never heard of before, that would still require
> reading the release notes, so it's not helpful.  (Unless I was to make
> postgresql-server require the new subpackage, but I'm sure that would
> not be considered good packaging practice either ...)

I understand what you're saying here. I think dropping the stub is the
best path forward here, along with making sure that the new "helper"
commands are in the release notes.

~tom

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