On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:

2009/7/31 Vincent Untz :

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Hi,

Sending this to opensuse-packaging because I'm not sure about the policy...

Le vendredi 31 juillet 2009, à 20:06 +0200, lrupp@suse.de a écrit :

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Hi vuntz@novell.com, /mounts/work_src_done/STABLE/libwebkit was not checked in by lrupp for the following reasons:

Packaging documentation in library packages is not allowed: http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy#Package_Con...

(note that the doc files in question are only license files + NEWS, not API documentation, or "how to use this library" documentation)

I made the change, but I consider the policy broken here: if libwebkit11 is LGPLv2 and libwebkit12 is LGPLv3, then I can only have one libwebkit-devel, and therefore one of those two packages won't have the right license installed.

Can someone clarify if I'm right or wrong, and if we need to adapt a bit the policy? :-)

I would say they should be in the main package. They are not development related and since they will end in %docdir/%name and %name is versioned there is no file conflict.

Until we have a policy about where licenses should go they should not go into the shared library packages. The NEWS file certainly never should go there (the only sane policy that would allow licenses in a shared library package would be one that forces the license file to be present in _every_ sub-package, in /usr/share/doc/packages/$subpackage/, which is not necessarily %doc).

Yes, the wiki should be updated to clarify this.

I'll do that. Richard. -- Richard Guenther Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex