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 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 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 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 one late change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines:
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The systemd scriptlet guidelines have been updated for Fedora 18. In
Fedora 18, the systemd package now provides helper macros to simplify
%post, %preun, and %postun invocations in packages with systemd unit
files. Additionally,
A few minor changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines have been made:
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The Ruby Packaging guidelines were updated to reflect the fact that
rubygem packages must have a Requires: rubygems, because that package
(rubygems) owns the RubyGems? directory structure.
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
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
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
The Fedora Packaging Committee has one open seat and is accepting
submissions from interested candidates to serve on the FPC.
The FPC would like to thank Rex Dieter for his service, as he is
stepping down after several years.
This position involves not only reviewing Packaging Guideline drafts
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