[Vote] Tastebook

Bhavani Shankar R bhavi at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 15 06:10:19 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Leonardo Robol <leo at robol.it> wrote:
> Il 13/08/2012 12:18, Andrew Mitchell ha scritto:
>> There are some files installed outside of /opt such as:
>> -rw-r--r-- root/root       204 2012-07-12 20:24 ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/tastebook
>> -rw-r--r-- root/root       784 2012-07-10 01:39 ./usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/it.robol.tastebook.gschema.xml
>>
>> Though these shouldn't conflict due to having the package name, the schema
>> should be under /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/tastebook, and the lintian override
>> should not be used, as we just ignore the lintian errors about /opt.
>> I'll give it a -1 for now, though it shouldn't take much for someone to fix &
>> then I can make it +1, as it looks like quite a nice app.
>
> Hi all,
> I remeber to have read somewhere in the App showdown rules and/or ARB
> guidelines that gsettings files are excluded from the "run from /opt"
> rule. I've tried to find the place where I've read it with no success.
>
> So, if you confirm me that that schema should not be in there I can
> adjust the packaging accordingly.
>
> For what regards the lintian overrides I've followed the packaging of
> other software in the USC, but even for that, if you can confirm that
> removing the lintian overrides is required that's quite a trivial edit
> and I'll upload without them to the PPA.
>

Hi Leonardo,

As per the ARB guidelines here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Review/Guidelines#Packaging

All files should go under /opt except for files like changelog,
copyright, desktop files and scopes and lenses as described above

So a +0 from me too until its fixed

Regards,
-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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