On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 07:57 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > I was trying to decide if I would bother trying make the official > packages conflict with theirs, I think it may be more of a case of > caveat emptor. In the case of the libraries though, he appends a 0 to > the package name. I'm not sure what problems that would create. > I have no idea how their build system works but one thing that may help is to provide a patch that makes package.spec.in and a makefile rule. That way they won't have to do much maintenance on the spec file and you can write it so that it at least conforms with fedora package naming / splitting guidelines if not fully fedora compliant. They may appreciate it, sometimes they write a spec file because they want to have an RPM to distribute but they don't really know about packaging and would welcome a well written spec file from someone who does.
