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#130 Migrates https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues
Merged by ankursinha. Opened by ankursinha.
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There are a few items that do not seem relevant any more, so we can remove those. Also need to check the links to the packaging guidelines. Finally, once this is done, we need to put a redirect in place on the wiki.

This paragraph is ok. But the consequent example of issues is weird. I would rather directly point to rpmlint documentation.

This paragraph is ok. But the consequent example of issues is weird. I would rather directly point to rpmlint documentation.

Sure, makes sense. Where is the rpmlint documentation though? I don't see a link here: 🤔

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint

Edited by ankursinha

Typo "safelly", should be "safely".

This paragraph is ok. But the consequent example of issues is weird. I would rather directly point to rpmlint documentation.

Sure, makes sense. Where is the rpmlint documentation though? I don't see a link here: 🤔

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint

Do we even need to have a link? Right above the -e parameter is explained, and the user can get up-to-date description with that. I would suggest just dropping the explanations. In case there is something useful that is not given by -e, a pull request to improve rpmlint's descriptions would be the correct way to get the extra material included. And you could ask rpmlint upstream to push the descriptions to a webpage, if you think such page is useful.

But if you think these descriptions contain useful information that is not given by -e (perhaps Fedora specific fixes that would not make sense in -e output?), I am fine with having this list also here.

rebased onto 5b0577968381b4aed9cd353c5483be7ac905915e

Thanks for the feedback folks. I've removed all the descriptions which were just repetitions of rpmlint output. I've left a few that do provide some suggestions on how to remedy the issue.

I guess https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_tricks can also be migrated, since it's referred to in this document (I can do that next).

PS: I simply merged master into my branch for the PR. I don't think the diff pagure is generating is correct now---I've not touched any files apart from the rpmlint tricks and the nav doc..

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Thanks, this looks good now. Probably these is still much that could be done with this page, but better to get it imported from Wiki now, and improved later if somebody decides to put some effort here.

Interesting that Pagure gets confused by back and forth merging like you did here. In any case, I had to rebase this pull request before merging, which cleaned up things so that also Pagure web UI now correctly shows the content.

Importing Packaging Tricks sounds like a good idea, great if you can do that!

rebased onto 359b1d42f91d6543110395925eb09859cb208af7

I'll go ahead and merge this now. I'll see when I can work on the packaging tricks page, but I don't see myself having time to do it in the next few weeks. I'll open an issue so anyone else can also take it on in the meantime.

Pull-Request has been merged by ankursinha

Uh, sorry, I meant to merge this myself earlier, but apparently I only rebased. Good that this is now completed!
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