On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM Michal Schorm <msch...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The FSH standard 3.0 was introduced in 2015. > The changes in FSH 3.0 seem to me as a natural evolution, and > clarification of existing practices after the 2.3 version. > > I believe we should officially adopt the 3.0 version and update the > Fedora Packaging Guidelines text accordingly. > Drop the obsolete paragraphs and review the list of exceptions, where > we consciously want to deviate from the standard. > > The only question in my opinion is on how strict we should be with the > Guidelines text update. > Whether we want to document the state we *want to* achieve, trusting > the package maintainers on their own to fix their packages where > necessary, > or rather make the list of exception as close to the current state in > Fedora as possible, (e.g. acknowledging sub-dirs in '/usr/bin' as > still acceptable for now) and hope some volunteer will later work > towards fixing our distro as a whole - minimizing the number of > expectations - through e.g. Fedora Changes. > > Another approach might be a combination - to have one list of the > exception we want to keep for good reasons, > and to make another list of exceptions we currently acknowledge, but > want to remove, explicitly limiting these exceptions to the existing > packages where the issues currently exists, > so we at least prohibit new packages to introducing more such issues, > and existing package to regress further away from the standard. >
In principle, I agree we should update our references to FHS 3.0. Most distributions have already, and there's no reason for us not to as well. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
