Packaging Guidelines

This is a collection of guidelines that are intended to help the developers packaging new packages.

They need to be enforced under any circumstances and only in exceptional cases a deviation from these rules must be granted by the development community.

Package information

• Package Names
• Package Version & Release Number
• Summary and Description
• Licensing
• Dependencies
• Architectures

Build process

• Compiler Flags
• Parallel Builds
• Filesystem layout --> FIXME - cannot locate link
• Shared Libraries --> FIXME - cannot locate link
• Scriptlets
• Test Suites
• Symlinks
• Man Pages