[Mageia-dev] Rpmlint configuration, false positives

Sun Aug 28 10:31:00 CEST 2011

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le samedi 27 août 2011 à 22:06 +0200, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+>> Am 04.03.2011 22:30, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+>>>
+>>> But we can filter and configure it to be a little more perfect.
+>>>
+>>> In a rather autocratic fashion, as the maintainer of rpmlint ( both packages
+>>> and uptream ), as a packager representative, and as a apprentice dictator
+>>> ( since there is lots of open position in this sector since a few weeks ),
+>>> I propose that this become the canonical source for rpmlint configuration.
+>>>
+>>> In practice, that mean that false positives will have to be added there,
+>>> that stuff that are noted as errors need to be set in that package, and
+>>> any policy changes must be made there.
+
+Good idea
+
+[...]
+
+>> I think the following are bogus, but i may be totally wrong:
+>>
+>> *strange-permission *       for SOURCES and SPEC it complains if not 0644, why
+>> is that?
+>
+> The question is rather, "why should another permission be used ?". If
+> not, we can end with 700 or anything weird.
+
+Like the 600 permissions that actually _did_ occur with Python-docs not too 
+long ago.  We need that warning.
+
+-- 
+André
+