On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 05:04, Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> It used to be a good practice to announce changes in Packaging Guidelines
> <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/> here on this
> list. The forkflow was that Fedora Packaging Committee accepted a change on
> it's meeting and then announced it in their meeting notes posted here. This
> workflow allowed packagers to notice the changes and apply them to their
> packages.
>
>
....
> +=== Explicit lists
> +
> +Packagers *SHOULD NOT* simply glob everything under a shared
> directory.
> +
> +In particular, the following *SHOULD NOT* be used in `+%files+`:
> +
> +* `+%{_bindir}/*+`
> +* `+%{_datadir}/*+`
> +* `+%{_includedir}/*+`
> +* `+%{_mandir}/*+`
> +* `+%{_docdir}/*+`
>
> To my surprise the first time when I get known to this new rule was today
> in a review of my new package.
>
>
Ugh changes like that really need a bit more open discussion and they need
to be announced here. What is the problem trying to be solved by this? Does
this solution actually solve that problem or band-aid it?
That said, it isn't like I as a packager have been following the packaging
committee enough to actually know what is going on. I have just taken it
for granted that they would just do what I felt was the right thing without
telling them that. Nor have I run for the packaging committee or spent time
dealing with the crap that trying to deal with N factorial combinations of
languages requires.
So what is the right way to deal with this? Have more people join the
packaging list and start asking questions?
On this rule, I am not sure how large packages are going to work. My guess
would be that some packager will come up with a script which just does the
glob, and then outputs the data in a list which is then sed back to be
`%{FOOdir}/blah1 %{FOOdir}/blah2 etc` And the problem trying to be solved
of stuff getting added in without review.. will just go out the door.
--
Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive
Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
-- Ian MacClaren
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