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The tool is used on upload to refuse some +</I>><i> rpms based +</I>><i> on this rules, and should be used by people to check rpms, to make +</I>><i> sure that +</I>><i> no obvious errors is still there. However, this is not a perfect tool, +</I>><i> and it can still give false positives, so people should not use without +</I>><i> understanding errors. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But we can filter and configure it to be a little more perfect. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In a rather autocratic fashion, as the maintainer of rpmlint ( both +</I>><i> packages +</I>><i> and uptream ), as a packager representative, and as a apprentice +</I>><i> dictator +</I>><i> ( since there is lots of open position in this sector since a few +</I>><i> weeks ), +</I>><i> I propose that this become the canonical source for rpmlint +</I>><i> configuration. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In practice, that mean that false positives will have to be added +</I>><i> there, +</I>><i> that stuff that are noted as errors need to be set in that package, and +</I>><i> any policy changes must be made there. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So the question is "how do we deal with evolution ( ie, how do we +</I>><i> decide +</I>><i> something is now a error, or no longer one". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Traditionally, packagers didn't care at all, and so the +</I>><i> configuration bitrotted +</I>><i> since a long time, and people didn't used it, and I just added false +</I>><i> positives +</I>><i> when packagers notified it ( ie, almost never, except when I noticed +</I>><i> some of them ). +</I>><i> I suspect that my lack of communication around that didn't help ( +</I>><i> and so +</I>><i> people didn't knew they could ask for adding a false positive to the +</I>><i> list +</I>><i> of error to ignore ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yet, I think we can do better, so feel free to suggest any mad idea +</I>><i> for this. +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Michael Scherer +</I>Regarding license names, I haven’t checked the code, will provide a +patch for this, it would be nice if rpmlint could load valid license +names from a yaml config file which will contain valid licenses as +mentionned here: +<A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses_3">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses_3</A> + +And then I will make a script to detect wrong licenses in already +imported packages so that we can make a fix license sprint to fix them + +Are you ok with that ? +-- +Rémy CLOUARD +() ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail +/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 230 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20110305/d4878f44/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003039.html">[Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003037.html">[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release nagios-3.2.3-2.mga1 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3036">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3036">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3036">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3036">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |