Weird packaging policies (Was: [users] Circular obsoletes between Dries and FE6 rrdtool Perl bindings)

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Now, creating a new (sane) packaging policy that mandates lower case
> > > package
> > > names would make a lot of sense.
> > 
> > Could we revert those 'new' packages in FE that already existed in RPMforge
> > to lowercase ? I can make a list of those. Some of the packages (like
> > django) I would like to introduce as well in lowercase if possible.
> 
> Can FC please remove the package version numbers from the directories in
> /usr/share/doc and have a policy that each package should have a directory in
> /usr/share/doc?  Using this directory has been used so seldom that I rarely
> even look there anymore on RH based systems now.

+1

That would be a nice suggestion to make as well, especially because the 
version number makes it impossible to have persistent links from eg. 
documentation and websites.

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