Víctor Cuadrado Juan schrieb:
On 08/11/2016 02:08 PM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
On 11.08.2016 14:06, Víctor Cuadrado Juan wrote:
On 08/11/2016 11:41 AM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
There is a policy and a rpmlint check for it
Seems the policy is lacking as it is (I point to the mix of symlinks owned and not owned by packages). If you feel like it isn't, please share why you think so and if you think the current state of the symlinks is desirable (that's why I wrote this e-mail :).
No, just some package just don't follow it.
I see that as a sign of a policy that needs to be improved.
- so either you report bugs or fix the packages.
I don't think that starting a mass bug filling for something that hasn't been discussed yet is a solution.
Aehm, so you want to discuss if those packages not following the policy and have a warning in their rpmlint.log are correct? I don't see why.
Exactly, I want to discuss that. Given that I've been only 2 months working in SUSE, and I come from Debian, where normally a violation of a policy means a package not shipped.
I suppose I see it more clear now; policies are suggestions in SUSE. I don't intend to change that. But it's a pity that paid users downstream of openSUSE are suffering from seemingly unrelated bugs for months, because of it (that's what brought me to opening this thread).
IIUC the policy and the check is correct. So this case seems to be just missing follow-up. The usual procedure for a case like this is 1. discuss and approve the policy 2. implement and deploy rpmlint check 3. wait for full distro rebuild to see the rpmlint results 4. file bug reports for all affected packages and set a deadline 5. after the deadline evaluate the packages that didn't get fixed, ie nag maintainer/fix yourself/propose to drop Looks like we came to 3) but didn't continue. Since the problem seems to be important to you and noone else stepped up, feel free to go ahead with 4). I made good experience with filing one tracker bug for $myself that explains what needs to be done and why. Then file bugs for each package that block the tracker bug. Bugzilla tree view gives a good overview of progress then. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org