On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:50:39AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > I'm not going to oppose you on the ground that enrico has written good > > packages; I'll oppose you on the groupnd that it's not the job of Fedora > > to prevent people from providing functionality above the minimum. > > The problem is that the mandatory functionality (SysV-style initscripts > compliant to our guidelines) gets pushed to a subpackage to make room for > the optional and completely unneccessary junk, and that in some cases yum > prefers the nonstandard subpackages. > > Plus, he's also violating other guidelines, e.g. for this package: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176308 > Version contains a SVN revision tag which MUST be in Release instead > according to our guidelines. (Thanks to Chen Lei for pointing that out.) > (And look at the mess that nonstandard versioning made to the bumping tool > spot used, see the insane Release values it produced. We have versioning > rules for a reason.) > <nod> Like I say, I'm not replying to points regarding whether enrico is doing good or bad packaging. I'm replying to the quoting of a section of the Packaging Guidelines as supposed support for banning other initscripts. To reiterate, there is no such ban in the Packaging Guidelines.
-Toshio
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