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

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> 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.

My concern would be that we should likely standardize on a format/invocation
for new helper commands wherever possible. Do we have existing ones outside
of iptables at this point?

Bill