Re: Where to put spec files...

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 07:08, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I've been thinking about this, and I think that I'd like to move the
> .spec files, and debian/ dirs, and Solaris/slackware packaging stuff out
> of the main directory for -all- modules.  Since 99% of the time, the
> people maintaining the code aren't the same people maintaining the .spec
> files, it doesn't really belong "in with the code".  Having it in the
> top directory, named only for the package name is somewhat unfriendly to
> SuSE and other RPM based distributions.  So, the solution that I think
> will probably work best, is to create a subdirectory called "packaging/"
> (suggestions on the name most welcome!).  Inside of this directory, we
> can put, for example, redhat-gnome-core.spec.in,
> suse-gnome-core.spec.in, debian/, and whatever else we might need, for
> any other Solaris/Slackware/Irix/other packages.  Thoughts?
> 	Greg
> 

Definately agreed here. If everyone type of distro dumped their
packaging stuff in the root directory, it'd be even more cluttered than
it is now!

--
Ross