From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSFWF-0001L7-3G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:29:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A85DBE0AE7; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailfilter65.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter65.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.65]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B120AE0ABC for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:28:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoYFAKauJEx2XGz1/2dsb2JhbACTEowwcsJRhSEEjVs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,483,1272801600"; d="scan'208";a="46355905" Received: from 118-92-108-245.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz (HELO linux.localnet) ([118.92.108.245]) by cust.filter1.content.vf.net.nz with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 26 Jun 2010 08:28:47 +1200 From: Alistair Bush Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:28:22 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Enrico Weigelt References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006260828.23628.ali_bush@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9c937aa9-95de-4e70-a86b-6e3d559ca63d X-Archives-Hash: fa05c55a63aa5efb1fa96ce77ccd3127 > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers > should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. > > Comments welcomed :) > Is this language specific? would you be interested in comments about java, ruby, python, etc, etc, etc or are you only interested in good old C/C++, etc > > cu