Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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.
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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
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.
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Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
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Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
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A page describing the implementation of
Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
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Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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.
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Here are the recent changes to the packaging guidelines.
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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
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.
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Guidelines for making use of weak dependencies (Recommends:, Suggests:,
etc.) have been added.
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.
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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:
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries_2
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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
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Another round of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines have been made:
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A new section on packaging cron jobs has been added:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/CronFiles
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The guidelines for migrating from sysv init scripts to systemd were
clarified to state that the migration
Some more changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines have been made:
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The Packaging Guidelines covering Desktop files have been amended to say
that for Fedora 19 and beyond, the vendor tag must not be used. If it
was being used in a previous release, it may continue to be used for
that
Some changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines have been made:
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In the specific case where multiple software components generate
identically named (but incompatible) binaries, Fedora Packagers should
make every effort to convince the upstreams to rename the binaries to
resolve the conflict
Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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In Fedora, you can assume that the default shell (/bin/sh) is bash.
Thus, all scriptlets can safely assume that if they are running in shell
code, they are running within bash.
Here is this week's change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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The systemd guidelines on naming unit files have been amended to tell
packagers how to make compatibility symlinks for alternate service names
should their service have had a different name in the past.
Here are the changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines for this week:
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The Packaging:PHP guidelines have been updated to reflect that PEAR
documentation provided by upstream are installed in %{pear_docdir},
should stay there, and must be marked as %doc.
Additionally, the definition of
Here are the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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The Emacs packaging guidelines were updated to handle cases where a
package's principal functionality does not require (X)Emacs, but the
package also includes some auxiliary Elisp files to provide support for
the package
Here are the list of recent changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
D Packaging Guidelines have been added:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:D
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The Java Packaging Guidelines have been revised:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java
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Here are the list of this week's changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
The FPC has taken over evaluating exceptions to the Bundled Library
Guidelines. A list of standard questions to be answered to give the FPC
information on whether to grant exceptions has been added to the
Guidelines:
It has been almost a year since we announced changes to the Packaging
Guidelines, so this will be a long list. In the future, we'll try to be
more timely in writing up changes and announcing them to the Fedora
Community.
Here are the list of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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