Packaging:Minutes20070306

Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting of {2007.03.06}

Present

• AxelThimm (normally thimm, but appeared as thim1 during this meeting)
• DavidLutterkort (lutter)
• JasonTibbitts (tibbs)
• JesseKeating (f13)
• RalfCorsepius (racor)
• RexDieter (rdieter)
• TomCallaway (spot)
• VilleSkyttä (scop)

Writeups

The following drafts have been accepted by FESCO and are to be written into the guidelines:

• PackagingDrafts/BuildRoot
• PackagingDrafs/InitScripts

Votes

The following proposals were considered:

• Firmware Packaging guidelines: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-February/msg00292.html
• Accepted.
• Voting for: thim1, spot, scop, lutter, tibbs, f13
• Voting against: (none)

• Switching to the #fedora-meeting channel for future meetings
• Accepted.
• Voting for: thim1, spot, tibbs, lutter, f13
• Voting against: (none)
• tibbs reserved the meeting time on Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel .

• Closing the #fedora-packaging channel and redirecting joins to #fedora-devel
• Accepted.
• Voting for: thim1, spot, tibbs, f13, lutter
• Voting against: (none)
• spot performed the channel magic after the conclusion of the meeting.

• Disallowing %config files under /usr: PackagingDrafts/UsrConfigs
• Accepted.
• Voting for: thim1, f13, spot, tibbs, scop
• Voting against: racor

Other Discussions

The following additional items were discussed; see the logs for full details.

• Meeting minutes and summaries
• tibbs foolishly volunteered to provide logs and minutes and to summarize the meeting for fedora-maintainers.
• Guidelines for building cmake-based packages: PackagingDrafts/cmake .
• Necessity of making shared libraries executable.
• perl/perl-devel split