Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Some more: Don't depend on some arb version number of libs. Nothing worse than being forced to use some lib 4 versions behind current when current actually works just fine ACK. But most times, that IMHO comes from incompatible API (or ABI)

[gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 June 2010 22:17:39 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) My biggest beef by far when packaging apps is automagic dependencies. e17 is

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu no bundled libs. when you change the tarball fucking change the version number.

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 June 2010 23:57:54 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 25 Juni 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu no