[Notion-devel] Issues While Developing A Package For Fedora

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

I am working on packaging Notion for Fedora, and a few things have come up.

The RPM lint tool complains about cs/man1/notion.1.gz and 
fi/man1/notion.1.gz not being UTF-8. Are there any objections to my 
converting them to UTF-8 via iconv? The files seemed to convert okay 
when compared with tkdiff, however, I don't speak/read either language 
so I thought I'd ask.

It looks like the address for the Free Software Foundation is out of 
date in libtu/rb.c and libtu/rb.h. These files list the address as:
     59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
however the current address is:
     51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
The RPM linter checks for and complains about this. I don't know if it 
can be hand-waved away during the review process or not... (my first 
time packaging)

contrib/statusbar isn't part of the default install?

There are several different licenses used in contrib/, but to me they 
all appear to be compatible with GPLv3. Any objections to listing the 
license as GPLv3? Fedora does allow the option of specifying multiple 
licenses, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

Also, a few bits of errata came up. These don't necessarily need to be 
addressed but I thought I'd at least mention them.

The ChangeLog is apparently supposed to be autogenerated, however that 
does not appear to be happening. Currently, the file only contains the 
statement "(The ChangeLog will be generated by release scripts from svn 
logs)". Any interest in correcting this or removing it? RELNOTES appears 
to be ... out of date. Any interest in correcting or removing this one 
also? As it is, I'm just copying these as is, along with LICENSE and README.

There does not appear to be a man page for notionflux. Any plans for 
adding one in the future? Also, it appears that the documentation isn't 
part of the source snapshot? At least not notion-3-2013030200-src.tar.bz2.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Jeff

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