RpmLintImprovement

Recently some requirements to rpmlint functionality occurs. This wiki page tries to summarize them and provide information about progress of the implementation.


 * Rpmlint should check if there are manual page for each binary/script
 * BugZilla: 572090
 * Status: Applied upstream


 * Rpmlint should check if there isn't two binaries with same name in the standard binary directories
 * BugZilla: 572097
 * Status: Applied upstream


 * Rpmlint should check usage of deprecated egrep/fgrep
 * BugZilla: 571386
 * Status: Applied upstream


 * Rpmlint should check if specfile contains both Fedora and RHEL conditional
 * BugZilla: 572158
 * Status: Patch proposed


 * Rpmlint should check macros in the comments
 * BugZilla: 571375
 * Status: Applied upstream

TODO:
This checks are in planning state. It is not even decided if they are doable.
 * One file in two subpackages (Issues: %files -f for reading file list from file; usage of *)

If you have some suggestions for another useful rpmlint features, please contact Rnovacek.