Am Montag, 16. Mai 2011, 19:57:23 schrieb Christoph Wickert:
Am Montag, den 16.05.2011, 22:34 +0530 schrieb Ankur Sinha:
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 18:42 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > I'd like to see everything packaged from scratch with the templates
> > from
> > rpmdev-newspec. I have looked at some of the files and there are many
> > that I would refuse to approve in their current state.
> >
> > If you however do use one of the OpenSUSE spec, please give credit to
> > those who deserve it. Write at least something like "Initial Fedora
> > package based on work by Foo Bar for OpenSUSE" as last change log
> > entry
> > or do not change the changelog at all.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> Hi!
>
> I've created a new spec using rpmdev-newspec, and then used the opensuse
> spec as a reference (copied some bits off too).
>
> I've included the opensuse package src link in my changelog too.
Hi Ankur,
great, this is just what it should be. IMHO the link is not needed (and
I am not sure it is persistent), but please add the name of the original
creator, e.g.
* Initial Fedora package inspired by work from Foo Bar for
OpenSUSE
* Initial Fedora package. Thanks to Foo Bar
Keep up the good work,
Christoph
In my opinion packaging consists of
a) sorting out dependencies
b) sorting out files to install and location where ot install
c) using the distribution specific methods to achieve the above.
For that reason existing src rpm independent of its source are a big time
saver. Not making use of the information in the existing spec files (a,b and
maybe c) is wasting time.
Regards,
Sebastian