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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511668
Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|fontpackages |knm_new-fonts AssignedTo|nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net |tagoh@redhat.com
--- Comment #9 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net 2009-07-17 13:35:53 EDT --- (In reply to comment #8)
The reason why this failed is: Generating content for font package: knm-new-fonts error: line 53: Package does not exist: %post -n knm-new-fonts
Well, fontpackages used to do no processing on the name the packager gave to %_font_pkg and many packagers got it wrong, resulting in lots of back and forth getting them to fix it. So now it massages the name given in argument to try to correct it. It fixes many human problems and improves packager poductivity.
As in Package Naming Guidelines, this package is included in a kind of exceptions for the underscore rule. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Separators
I *really* do not want to add any more package naming processing to fontpackages. It is already quite over-engineered without needing to handle a fixed list of historical exceptions to guidelines. Given that this is the *only* font package that fails because of an underline, would it be possible to rename it to use the standard fedora package name separator ?
I'm quite sure the guidelines exception list was written to avoid unnecessary work on existing packages, but trying to maintain it will have the reverse effect now.