Re: [opensuse-packaging] RPMLINT error

2007-07-26 Thread Matthias Koenig
Stefan Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I do not understand this error message: > > RPMLINT report: > === > E: libqdialogsolver shlib-policy-name-error (Badness: 1) > libqdialogsolver1 > Your package contains a single shared library but is not named after its > SONAME.

[opensuse-packaging] e2fsprogs library branch off

2007-07-05 Thread Matthias Koenig
Hi, with the recent update of e2fsprogs to version 1.40, the libraries have been branched off from the package, the following e2fsprogs packages do exist now: e2fsprogs libext2fs2 libblkid1 libuuid1 libcom_err2 with the development packages: libext2fs-devel libblkid-devel libuuid-devel libcom_err

Re: [opensuse-packaging] GPL file location

2007-05-25 Thread Matthias Koenig
Dirk Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday, 25. May 2007, Arun Singh wrote: > >> > %doc COPYING > > another solution that doesn't bloat your package is to symlink it from the > licenses package. Will this be part of the base system or will each package have to require the licenses pa

[opensuse-packaging] openssl package split

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Koenig
Hi, to follow the library packaging policy the openssl package has been branched with the following new package layout: openssl -+--> openssl | +--> libopenssl0_9_8 | +--> openssl-certs openssl-devel --> libopenssl-devel openss

Re: [opensuse-packaging] [library packaging policy] Example fixing of curl

2007-04-24 Thread Matthias Koenig
Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The library packaging policy forces you to rename curl-devel to > either libcurl-devel or libcurl4-devel if you want to support development > with different curl versions. We choose not to and rename it to > libcurl-devel which will depend on libcur

Re: [opensuse-packaging] OGMRip

2007-02-13 Thread Matthias Koenig
"Olivier Rolland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm the lead developer of OGMRip (http://ogmrip.sf.net). I've been > criticized lately on the french forums of ubuntu because I do not > provide any ubuntu package. Well, it's not job of the upstream maintainer to take care for technical details of

Re: [opensuse-packaging] location of devel symlinks for libraries

2007-01-16 Thread Matthias Koenig
Hi, Ludwig Nussel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A library required during system boot lives in /lib. Therefore one runs > configure --lib=/%_lib which means all files get installed into > /%_lib including the devel symlink *.so that point to the SONAME. > Some packages manually move that symlink t

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Packaging kernel module with conflicting file

2006-10-05 Thread Matthias Koenig
"Mauricio Teixeira (netmask)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way I can build a package which would install a new kernel > module that already exists on the kernel-default package? > > AFAIK, the packages would conflict with an error telling that the file > already exists. > > Anyone know