Publican Documentation Packages

Package naming convention
Proposed: Documentation packages be named with the OS version number in the package name to allow parallel installation of multiple versions.

Example:

Rationale: There are several use cases where installing multiple versions of documentation on the same system is desirable.

See:
 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476471#c57
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-March/msg00154.html

Commentary
I don't see any conflicts between this and the existing Guidelines. Would this be okay as a clarification on Packaging:NamingGuidelines? I'm thinking another Section for Publican Generated Documentation Packages at the same level as Documentation SubPackages. --abadger1999 15:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Desktop .spec file
Proposed: Allow the Desktop entry to be included inline in the  section of the   file.

Example:

%install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications

cat > %{name}.desktop <<'EOF' [Desktop Entry] Name=fedora 11: security-guide Comment=A Guide to Securing Fedora Linux Exec=%{viewer} %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/index.html Icon=%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/images/icon.svg Categories=Documentation;X-Red-Hat-Base; Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Terminal=false EOF

desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/applications/%{name}.desktop

Rationale: Publican is an automated tool that handles rpm generation from source for English and multiple language translations. To duplicate the volume of work that Publican does using a manual process would be hugely inefficient (and greatly prone to error). Currently we don't have resources to modify the output of Publican to separate the desktop entry out of the spec file.

See:
 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482972
 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-March/msg00153.html

Commentary
Does it seem reasonable to implement this by modifying Packaging:Guidelines to read::

If the package doesn't already include and install its own .desktop file, you need to make your own. You can do this by including a .desktop file you create as a Source: (e.g. Source3: %{name}.desktop) or generating it in the spec file. Here are the contents of a sample .desktop file (comical.desktop): [...]

--abadger1999 15:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)