[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - We have begun to remove content from the wiki. The old pages should all now have links to the new docs site. As we continue to work on the new documents, the corresponding wiki pages will be emptied and left only with the link to

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - The Python packaging guidelines have been updated to reflect the fact that Python 2 is deprecated. All relevant information for legacy Python 2 packaging has been moved to the appendix. Together with this change, the rule for

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - The packaging guidelines for enabling services by default were significantly revised to emphasize that services starting by default should fail only in exceptional conditions, and to provide additional guidance for services related

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - Many changes have been made to the Ruby packaging guidelines to reflect the current state of Ruby packaging. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby * https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/710 Note that the macros

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - A note was added to the Python guidelines indicating that the python2 stack may go away and that upstreams should be contacted about software not yet ported to python3. *

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Just this one change, but it has implications for many packages. The Scriptlet guidelines have received several changes regarding the installation of shared libraries and ldconfig. Use of the new macros is detailed, and there is a new section on the scriptlets required when linker configuration

Re: [Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Oops, one additional change was made which I left out of the previous announcement. A section was added to the Python guidelines describing the automatic generation of Provides: which was added in Fedora 25. Descriptions of three new macros were also added. *

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - The systemd section of the scriptlet guidelines was updated to indicate situations where the %systemd_ordering macro may be used instead of %systemd_requires. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Scriptlets#Systemd *

Removal of the default 16 job limit for makefile parallelism

The hardcoded upper limit of 16 jobs, passed to make via "-j" when you use either %make_build or make %{?_smp_mflags} in the %build section of your specfiles, is going away in rawhide. This may result in your jobs being run with additional parallelization in some situations. This change will

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - Some PHP scriptlets are now unnecessary in F24 due to the use of file triggers. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#PECL_Modules * https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/597 - A page describing the implementation of

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - A section on the treatment of pregenerated code has been added to the main guideline page. *​https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Use_of_pregenerated_code *​https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/580 - Text was

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - The guidelines were updated to reflect the current policy that Fedora packages are no longer permitted to carry SysV-style initscripts. The relevant guidelines page has been moved to the EPEL hierarchy. *

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. - The big change is that the Python guidelines have been extensively reorganized and partially rewritten, and new macros are available which simplify packaging by removing some of the boilerplate which was previously required. The

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines. Note that there is also a set of Python guideline changes pending which I will send in a separate announcement. - Guidelines for making use of weak dependencies (Recommends:, Suggests:, etc.) have been added.

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines: The policy for systemd presets has been modified to merge the individual treatments of service, socket and timer units into one policy. The policy page was also moved into the packaging guidelines proper. *

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines: The guidelines for packaging static libraries were amended to indicate that the -static package should require the -devel package: * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries_2 *

[Guidelines change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines: The documentation section of the guidelines has been updated to include a prohibition on using both %doc and direct installation of files into %_pkgdocdir. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation *

[Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

%license must be used in place of %doc to designate any file containing the license information for a package. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Documentation and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines Guidelines for DevAssistant packages (DAP) were