On 08/19/2015 12:45 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Do we want to treat the "gnome-shell-extension-common"
package as an
"artificial filesystem" package to be required by all gnome-shell-extension-*
packages to get directory ownership right?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_directory_is_owne...
[...]
Inspite of its package name not ending with "-filesystem" (would that
be a MUST?), the package description suggests that it serves as a
filesystem package:
$ rpm -qi gnome-shell-extension-common|tail -2
optional functionality to GNOME Shell. Common files and directories needed by
extensions are provided here.
It's only a single directory, and the "gnome-shell" parent dir is
pulled in via a dependency:
$ rpmls gnome-shell-extension-common|grep ^d
drwxr-xr-x /usr/share/doc/gnome-shell-extension-common
drwxr-xr-x /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions
$ rpm -qR gnome-shell-extension-common|grep -v ^rpm
gnome-shell >= 3.17.4
[...]
It has been pointed out during review that the package is not '''an
"official" filesystem-package'''. And packagers happily take
existing
packages as example. A single gnome-shell-extension package by somebody
from Red Hat owns the directory instead, giving the excuse to do it like
that, too. All other extension packages add a dependency on that
"artificial filesystem" package.
gnome-shell-extension-common is an internal subpackage for the
gnome-shell-extensions source package. Please don't make other packages
that come from different source packages depend on it.
-common is only split out because it contains translations shared by all
the extensions that come from the gnome-shell-extensions source package.
I went ahead and added an empty extensions directory (and
search-providers directory) to gnome-shell itself,
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gnome-shell.git/commit/?id=a5548a25bf3...
That should make it easier for extensions packages - just use
'Requires: gnome-shell' and the directory gets created along with
gnome-shell.
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Hope this helps,
Kalev