On Fri, Feb 21, Neal Gompa wrote:
If it is because of building for older distributions, then probably the best solution is to just remove the metainfo directory and content from the package... ;-)
Nah, it's just because the openSUSE policy is lazy in this regard and doesn't mandate figuring out a "golden owner" for a path.
This approach has a big disadvantage: Assume everything installs in /usr/share/app-v1, and this directory is owned by app. Now you update to v2 with /usr/share/app-v2. If app is updated first, nobody will remove /usr/share/app-v1 anymore. For a clean update it's clearly the better approach that every package owns the directory they are using, as long as they don't have a really static name. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Felix Imendoerffer (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org