Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:13:03PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 7 décembre 2009 23:21, John Dennis a écrit :
>
>
>> * Should rpmlint really be emitting warnings and errors for items not in
>> the guidelines? (not just about file/directory but a number of other
>> issues which frankly seems dubious). If rpmlint and the guidelines are
>> divergent then should rpmlint be a recommended tool during package review?
>>
> rpmlint is very convenient but
>
> 1. has been known to emit stupid warnings in the past (for example, during
> months it failed *any* spec file with UTF-8 inside, when UTF-8 was a Fedora
> choice, and while FPC had not asked for any filtering)
>
> 2. has refused to include checks for some Fedora packaging guidelines (because
> they were "distro specific" (ie the maintainer disagreed with FPC; today
the
> same checks are performed by Debian's lintian on .debs, but rpmlint still
> ignores them)
>
> I don't think this can resolved unless the rpmlint maintainer agrees to pay
> more attention to Fedora packaging guidelines. Right now rpmlint is whatever
> rpmlint maintainer feels is right. It may align or not with our own packaging
> guidelines.
>
If rpmlint upstream doesn't want to implement our guidelines, then either
we need a new tool, or try to make rpmlint support 'plugins', so that we
can drop extra Fedora rules into the standard upstream set without needing
to hack the main source.
One can use custom rules (and fedora does use custom rules) for quite a
while.