February 2009 - openSUSE Packaging - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-packaging] Call for Contribution: RPMLint Site
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Hi Folks, I’m an new Packager in OpenSUSE BuildService, and i like this work. But if i would like to package for Factory, RPMLINT gives me any Errors or warnings. But these things to fix, are very difficult. Our Wiki Side for RPMLINT doesn’t contain many Error or Warningcodes. From my side, i can say, that it's not good to make rpmlint as standard in OBS, and we have not enough dokumentation :-( But yesterday i’ve found an Side, with other Errorcodes from RPMLINT. Today i imported these Codes to our Wikiside http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/RpmLint. I think it is not possible to list all codes on the Side. But i wish, that the side includes more Codes in the future. No i would like to make an Call for contribution. If every Packager insert the codes, that he knows, we have an good library soon. And on this Moment i would like to make an request about helping- Thank you all for the hard Work. And please have an eye on Documentations :-) -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Changelog policy
by Magnus Boman 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Hello, I've noticed that a lot of packages going in to Factory does not have "proper" Changelog entries as explained to me (ie, copy redundant information from NEWS/Changelog entries upstream and put it in <packagename>.changes). My question is, do we have a project wide policy for this, or would it be enough to add what has been done by the package updater (ie, update to version x.y.z, add/remove patch etc)? Personally, I am in favor of not having to put it what changed upstream, since in most cases, this would be contained in a NEWS/Changelog file anyway. Thanks, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Who should own a directory that is used by many packages?
by Vincent Untz 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Hi, In the GNOME world, we have a few directories that are used by quite a few packages to put some files. Two examples are /usr/share/gnome/help /usr/share/gtk-doc The thing is that the first one is "owned" by libgnome and the second one is owned by gtk-doc. However, now, many packages don't need libgnome and still put files in /usr/share/gnome/help and it's bad to require the gtk-doc package at runtime only to have /usr/share/gtk-doc existing. So, how can we handle this case? Should we create some package like the filesystem one that would contain the common directories for GNOME stuff? Is it okay to add GNOME-related directories to the filesystem package? Or should we just be happy with having all packages owning a part of those directories? Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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