Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (120 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> 2009/3/5 Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>:
> > > 2) Are you planning to merge the existing SUSE Package Conventions with
> > > the new Guidelines?
> > Yes, that's a long term plan. The reason what I'm doing this is because
> > Fedora's structure of documentation is better than we have (we also has a lot
> > of information on wiki, but you often need to know where it is). And if we
> > will have a packaging documentation in similar structure, it would be easier
> > to check the differences. And maybe work on some unification, but my main 
> > goal
> > is improve packaging docs for SUSE.
>
> In which state is this?
> I see "http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/Packaging"; isn't in
> http://pack.suse.cz/mvyskocil/fedora-packaging-guidelines/, but it has
> some interesting points.

The import status (and the list of the imported pages) is here
http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Status . As you can see we only
imported (some of the) pages from Packaging: namespace, so
SIGs/Games/Packaging is not there. It is a nice document and I'm
considering it adding to our Packaging Guidelines, but first I'd like to
clarify some points ...

> I don't know what other maintainers of the game repo think, but I
> would say it is valid with just these changes:
> - For third point we make it the other way. openSUSE game packages use
> /usr/games and %{_datadir}/games/%{name}

This is worth discussion. Is there a solid reason to use separate
directories for games? (According to FHS /usr/games and /usr/share/games
are optional and we have it in our filesystem, so I'm neutral about this).

> - For point six I find a general problem in openSUSE. Packages seem to
> use whatever Group the packager can imagine. We don't limit ourself to
> groups from /usr/share/doc/packages/rpm/GROUPS. Isn't as if we gave
> much importance to the Group tag, but...

> - The OpenGL Wrapper part can be removed.

We have opengl-games-utils package in games, so we could probably follow
this point, but I'm not sure whether it is worth it. I just added the
check to Game Store[1], where it makes sense, because the user cannot
see the console output.

[1] http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/07/gamestore/


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