On Friday 02 April 2010 10:18:39 am Petr Uzel wrote:

Hi,

with new rpmlint, I started getting some new warnings, some of them are quite weird IMO:

-------- 1) prereq is deprecated: PreReq: info

This comes from PreReq: %install_info_prereq , which is suggested by packaging conventions. [1]

Does the warning mean that the PreReq: could be safely replaced with Requires: ? [2]

If so, the packaging conventions should be updated to reflect this.

The correct form is Requires(pre): - even if it's not documented (but what is in rpm packaging world :-/) so the packaging documentation should be updated.

-------- 2) W: source-or-patch-not-compressed bz2 parted-mac.patch

I really doubt it makes any sense to compress most of the patches. I think this warning should be disabled (or at least applied only if the patch is bigger than some treshold).

Agree, I don't see any big reason to have bzipped patches - the saved amount of storage will be minimal.

-------- 3) W: manpage-not-compressed bz2 /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz W: infopage-not-compressed bz2 /usr/share/info/parted.info.gz

These two are really funny especially given it is some RPM/build magic that (AFAIK) does the compression - apparently using gzip.

+1 - why rpmlint complains about something done by rpmbuild internally? Regards Michal Vyskocil

On 04/02/2010 10:18 AM, Petr Uzel wrote:

1) prereq is deprecated: PreReq: info

This comes from PreReq: %install_info_prereq , which is suggested by packaging conventions. [1]

Does the warning mean that the PreReq: could be safely replaced with Requires: ? [2]

You should replace it with Requires(phase) where "phase" is pre/post/preun/postun/whatever phase requires the package.

If so, the packaging conventions should be updated to reflect this.

The document you linked is unmaintained since 2005. Please use http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Scriptlet_Snippets and other pages in /Packaging namespace.

W: source-or-patch-not-compressed bz2 parted-mac.patch

I really doubt it makes any sense to compress most of the patches. I think this warning should be disabled (or at least applied only if the patch is bigger than some treshold).

I'm pretty sure there is some threshold (maybe 50k, not sure). -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org