[Mageia-dev] Some more new rpmlint warning on upload

Wed Jul 27 15:29:02 CEST 2011

On 27 July 2011 13:37, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> * non-standard-group
+>
+> This one cause problem in rpmdrake display ( among others ), as this add
+> category with 1 single package. There is no false positives.
+
+That's actually a conf regression on our side, I think most packagers are used
+to such rejects for a couple years and nobody will complain
+
+> * invalid-desktopfile
+>
+> rpmlint run desktop-file-validate, and any invalid file is detected.
+> Invalid file will in the best case work fine, and in the worst case, not
+> work. So better be safe and fix the file.
+>
+> There is also some more controversial :
+
+I think this one got enabled at one stage on mdv
+
+> * file-not-in-%lang
+> this will result in more disk space used for file that are not needed
+> ( like locales, etc ). However, this can be annoying to fix, and not a
+> widespread errors.
+
+This is borderline.
+Not a real blocking issue IMGO
+
+> * version-control-internal-file
+> same as previous, but there is maybe some use case, that should then be
+> added to exception
+
+idem
+
+> * standard-dir-owned-by-package
+> some package ( like gromacs ) do created /usr/bin/. This is unclean and
+> should be blocked. On the other hand, the problem are mostly theoric
+> ( like "having a directory with 2 differents modes or owners ).
+
+> I also found some stuff that would cause real problem :
+> hunspell-ca.noarch: W:
+> world-writable /usr/share/doc/hunspell-ca/LICENSES-en.txt 0666
+>
+> Yet, there is maybe some good case to have a file to be world writable ?
+
+we can whitelist the good cases if any
+
+> Or :
+> hdf-java.i586: W: non-readable /usr/share/java/fits.jar 0700
+>
+> There is also some good case to have a file non-readable, but in /usr,
+> there is none. ( and in this case, this seems like the package is broken
+> )
+>
+> So, to summarize, the proposal is :
+> - block upload on :
+> * missing-lsb-keyword
+> * malformed-line-in-lsb-comment-block
+> * useless-provides
+> * non-standard-group
+> * empty-%postun
+> * empty-%post
+> * invalid-desktopfile
+> * unknown-lsb-keyword
+> * standard-dir-owned-by-package
+>
+> discuss for blocking :
+> * backup-file-in-package
+> * version-control-internal-file
+>
+> discuss and find a list of exceptions for :
+> * world-writable
+> * non-readable
+> ( especially the non-readable part ).
+>
+> If no one protest, the 1st list will be added before I take my vacation,
+> in a few days.
+
+Let's go!
+