Development/Tasks/Packaging/Policies/Roadmap

This page will document the roadmap of the agreed policy changes for packaging.

Short Name	Deprecation date	Enforcement date	Summary	Discussed at
Forbid multply packaged files	06 December 2011	13 December 2011	Integrate a check that a file is not packaged into several packages several times into rpmbuild. If a spec violates this, its build will fail.	http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.devel/314035
Forbid unpakcaged subdirs	06 December 2011	13 December 2011	Unpackaged subdir is a build error, but which currently due to rpm bug might give false positives (to be fixed). To waive this, you should add a '%define _unpackaged_subdirs_terminate_build 0' to your spec file.	http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.devel/314035
Make some of the rpmlint reports build failures	21 December 2011	22 December 2011	The following rpmlint warnings are going to be considered build failures: buildprereq-use description-line-too-long dir-or-file-in-home dir-or-file-in-mnt dir-or-file-in-opt dir-or-file-in-tmp dir-or-file-in-usr-local dir-or-file-in-var-local empty-debuginfo-package info-dir-file percent-in-conflicts percent-in-dependency percent-in-obsoletes percent-in-provides prereq-use summary-on-multiple-lines summary-too-long	Cooker thread
Remove %mkrel	January 2011	Jun 14 2014.0 (MES5 EOL)	Deprecate %mkrel in favor of automatically assigned %disttag and %distepoch	Cooker thread