On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 03:11:56PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I think you're looking at this from the wrong point of view. The
current
packaging review guidelines are really huge, and take a long time to
wade though. Some of them really can be just reduced to bullet point
checklist items, while others need intelligent thought on the part of
the reviewer.
It's actually worse than you state ... some of them are checked just
fine by rpm/rpmlint, and so don't need to be checked at all.
eg: rpmlint checks the License field is valid and rpm checks that
there are no duplicate files in %files, so both of those are
unnecessary.
rpmlint could check a whole lot more too, eg. upstream URL exists,
source matches tarball, all the pkgconfig stuff, all the ldconfig
stuff, %doc includes license, license matches source, etc etc (not
that I'm volunteering to do all that work).
Rich.
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