On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:50:39AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I'm not going to oppose you on the ground that enrico has written good
> packages; I'll oppose you on the groupnd that it's not the job of Fedora
> to prevent people from providing functionality above the minimum.
The problem is that the mandatory functionality (SysV-style initscripts
compliant to our guidelines) gets pushed to a subpackage to make room for
the optional and completely unneccessary junk, and that in some cases yum
prefers the nonstandard subpackages.
Plus, he's also violating other guidelines, e.g. for this package:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176308
Version contains a SVN revision tag which MUST be in Release instead
according to our guidelines. (Thanks to Chen Lei for pointing that out.)
(And look at the mess that nonstandard versioning made to the bumping tool
spot used, see the insane Release values it produced. We have versioning
rules for a reason.)
<nod> Like I say, I'm not replying to points regarding whether enrico
is
doing good or bad packaging. I'm replying to the quoting of a section of the
Packaging Guidelines as supposed support for banning other initscripts.
To reiterate, there is no such ban in the Packaging Guidelines.
-Toshio