packaging March 2007

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30 discussions

Daylight saving time
by Toshio Kuratomi 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

We've been adjusting our meeting time to account for daylight saving time but this year will be the first time that we're on the new US DST plan. So hours in the US and Europe will shift on different weekends. Do we want to shift meeting times this weekend or wait until Europe shifts? We're currently meeting at 17:00UTC so waiting until Europe shifts would make the interim meetings take place later in the day for people in the US. -Toshio

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%config on folder permissions?
by Axel Thimm 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Does this work? See #231542 -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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Desktop files guidelines
by Michał Bentkowski 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi! A few days ago one man filled a bug against my package [1] and he's written that openarena's menu entry is not HIG complaint [2]. There are some nice guidelines about how to make the basic integration within the user environment of desktop. It could be nice if we took it as a one of Fedora guidelines. What do you think? Links: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231088 [2] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#me… -- Michał Bentkowski mr.ecik(a)gmail.com

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IAXy Firmware
by Jeffrey Ollie 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Well, after a long time off, I'm back to working on packaging Asterisk, and I thought that I'd revisit my previous decision to exclude the IAXy firmware. The IAXy is a small networked device produced by Digium (the developers of Asterisk) to connect an analog phone to an Asterisk PBX[0]. It needs some firmware to operate that can be served up to an IAXy over the network by Asterisk. The IAXy firmware is included with the Asterisk tarball, the relevant section from the LICENSE file is this: contrib/firmware/iax/iaxy.bin: This file is Copyright (C) Digium, Inc. and is licensed for use with Digium IAXy hardware devices only. It can be distributed freely as long as the distribution is in the original form present in this package (not reformatted or modified). Based upon recent discussion regarding wireless firmware, it seems that it is permissible to package the IAXy firmware. Am I correct? Jeff [0] http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/s101i.php

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License question - fastcgi / openmarket license
by Till Maas 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hello, is this license ok for a fedora package? http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/LICENSE.TERMS Regards, Till

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Proposal to disallow %config* under /usr
by Axel Thimm 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi, there seems to be confusion on f-m about whether %config* files ahve a place in /usr or not. I think it is quite evident that FHS and stateless goals rather forbid any %config bits under /usr and wouldn't really need any explicit mentioning. But as this created a lengthy thread being refueled every now and then, and the same may happen in the future again, maybe that's worth a clarification in the guideline? /me hopes that the FPC will simply vote on that w/o creating another lengthy thread. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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Two different locale names in one package?
by Sebastian Vahl 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi. A few days ago I've taken over the package kerry due to AWOL of the former maintainer. Today I've tried to package the new version of kerry. But I've encountered a problem: The new package contains two different named locale files: kerry.mo and kcmbeagle.mo. In one package I could only use one %find_lang. One solution could be to split up the package. That's what I have done for now (kerry and kerry-kcontrol). But the normal package would miss some features when not installing the sub-package. But I don't think a require for kerry-kcontrol in kerry itself would be a good idea. What would be the best solution in this situation? Really splitting up the package? And if so, also putting a require for kerry-kcontrol in kerry? Or is there an option for %find_lang I don't know? I've uploaded the srpm and the spec so that you could have a look: http://www.deadbabylon.de/fedora/extras/kerry/ Sebastian

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Reply-To on fedora-package-review list
by Till Maas 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Hiyas, the reply-to of messages on fedora-package-review is set to fedora-maintainers. I think that this list fits better, do you agree? Regards, Till

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Permissions to edit Review / PackageGuidelines
by Till Maas 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Aloas, I just noticed that I can edit the Review and PackageGuidelines - is this intended or maybe a bug because of the wiki upgrade? I added a link to fedora-packaging list to ask questions and that static libraries must go into a -static subpackge into the ReviewGuidelines to sync them with the PackageGuidelines. But I am not really sure whether or not this was the right way to make this change... Regards, Till

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Re: Fonts scriptlet for CORE packages
by Patrice Dumas 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:32:42PM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: > > Do we need to have alternative scriptlet that includes above lines for > post section for fonts packages in CORE? I am not a specialist, but my findings is that it depends on the type of font. It could be different for bitmap fonts, type1 fonts and truetype fonts. I asked for more precise guidelines some time ago, but nobody was willing to answer. Now that it is more or less mandatory to be able to review core packages, hopefully things will be better. -- Pat

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