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Re: RFD: Adding ability for maintainers to upload their own packages
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:47:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFD: Adding ability for maintainers to upload their own packages
- References: <20080219223139.GA9759@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
>>>>> Christopher Faylor writes:
> I've been playing with the notion of allowing maintainers to upload
> their own packages for some time. Over the three day weekend, I started
> implementing a method that I think will work.
Good idea.
> None of these changes will be made to the actual release itself. There
> will be some sanity checking applied to new packages before they are
> copied to the real release directory and any package deletions will be
> archived.
Hopefully not only the setup.hint gets checked. It would be great to
check at least for some packaging standards like:
o /usr/share/{doc|info|man} instead of /usr/{doc|info|man}
o existence of a package README
o No config files below /etc (instead under /etc/defaults)
These are the most popular and annoying packaging errors which can
easily be fixed by the maintainer.
Other things which come to mind:
o Check for CRLF endings in text files
....
Ciao
Volker