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

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Jeff Backus <jef...@gm...> wrote:

> 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?
>

I wouldn't have objections to you converting them - of course ideally that
change also makes it 'upstream' to our own git.


> 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)
>

Idem


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

Hmm i think it *should* be there.


> 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.
>

Not sure what Fedora's policies are on this front. For Debian we made a
fairly exhaustive listing of all licenses of all different parts of the
package, so you could either go for GPLv3 (if compatible) or make use of
that. Up to you.


> 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 out of date.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.
>

Yeah we should find a better solution there.


> There does not appear to be a man page for notionflux. Any plans for
> adding one in the future?


Would be good to add one


> Also, it appears that the documentation isn't
> part of the source snapshot? At least not notion-3-2013030200-src.tar.bz2.
>

Makes sense to add that I suppose, yeah.


Kind regards,

Arnout