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This page contains copypasteable templates for package reviews. The Core Guidelines section contains the rules that apply to every package. The rest contain rules that apply to specific types of packages. Those can be appended to the core guidelines.
Core Guidelines
Core guidelines, which apply to every package, incorporate the following:
Mandatory review guidelines:
- rpmlint output:
...
- Spec file name matches base package name
- License is acceptable (...)
- License field in spec is correct
- License files included in package if included in source package
- License files installed when any subpackage combination is installed
- Spec written in American English
- Spec is legible
- Sources match upstream unless altered to fix permissibility issues
Upstream SHA256: ...
Your SHA256: ...
- Build succeeds on at least one primary arch
- Build succeeds on all primary arches or has ExcludeArch + justification
- BuildRequires correct, justified where necessary
- Locales handled with %find_lang, not %_datadir/locale/*
- %post, %postun call ldconfig if package contains shared .so files
- No bundled libs
- Relocatability is justified
- Package owns all directories it creates
- Package requires others for directories it uses but does not own
- No duplication in %files unless necessary for license files
- File permissions are sane
- Package contains permissible code or content
- Large docs go in -doc subpackage
- %doc files not required at runtime
- Static libs go in -static package or virtual Provides
- Development files go in -devel package
- -devel packages Require base with fully-versioned dependency, %_isa
- No .la files
- GUI app uses .desktop file, installs it with desktop-file-install
- File list does not conflict with other packages' without justification
- File names are valid UTF-8
Optional review guidelines:
- Query upstream about including missing license files
- Translations of description, summary
- Builds in mock
- Builds on all arches
- Functions as described (e.g. no crashes)
- Scriptlets are sane
- Subpackages require base with fully-versioned dependency if sensible
- .pc file subpackage placement is sensible
- No file deps outside of /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin
- Include man pages if available
Naming guidelines:
- Package names use only a-zA-Z0-9-._+ subject to restrictions on -._+
- Package names are sane
- No naming conflicts
- Version is sane
- Version does not contain ~
- Release is sane
- %dist tag
- Case used only when necessary
- Package names follow applicable language/addon rules
Packaging guidelines:
- Useful without external bits
- No kmods
- Pre-built binaries, libs removed in %prep
- Sources contain only redistributable code or content
- Pre-generated code contains original sources
- Spec format is sane
- noarch package with unported deps has correct ExclusiveArch
- Arch-specific sources/patches are applied, not included, conditionally
- Package obeys FHS, except libexecdir, /run, /usr/target
- %{_prefix}/lib only used for multilib-exempt packages
- Programs run before FS mounting use /run instead of /var/run
- No files under /srv, /usr/local, /home
- Files under /opt constrained to an approved /opt/fedora subdir
- File dependencies not broken by /usr move
- No BuildRoot, Group, %clean, Packager, Vendor, Copyright, Prereq
- Summary does not end in a period
- Requires correct, justified where necessary
- Recommends, Suggests, Supplements, Enhances are sane
- No boolean dependencies
- Automatic Requires, Provides filtered if necessary
- BuildRequires lack %{_isa}
- BuildRequires: pkgconfig(foo) where necessary
- Summary, description do not use trademarks incorrectly
- All relevant documentation is packaged, appropriately marked with %doc
- Relative path %doc files and %_pkgdocdir not mixed
- Doc files do not drag in extra dependencies (e.g. due to +x)
- Changelog in a prescribed format
- Code compilable with gcc is compiled with gcc
- Build honors applicable compiler flags or justifies otherwise
- PIE used for long-running/root daemons, setuid/filecap programs
- Useful -debuginfo package or disabled and justified
- Shared libs are versioned
- No static executables (except OCaml)
- System libraries used when supported by upstream
- Bundled libraries have Provides, link to upstream refusal to unbundle
- No bundled fonts
- Rpath absent or only used for internal libs
- Config files marked with %config(noreplace) or justified %config
- No config files under /usr
- Third party package manager configs acceptable, only in %_docdir
- Per-product configs handled correctly
- No init scripts
- .desktop files are sane
- desktop-file-install/validate run on .desktop files, as appropriate
- No desktop-file-install --vendor on >= F19
- AppData files included if possible
- Spec uses macros consistently
- Spec uses macros instead of hard-coded names where appropriate
- Spec uses macros for executables only when configurability is needed
- %makeinstall used only when alternatives don't work
- Macros in Summary, description are expandable at srpm build time
- Spec uses %{SOURCE#} instead of $RPM_SOURCE_DIR and %sourcedir
- SCL macros limited to SCL-specific packages
- Macro files go under %_rpmconfigdir/macros.d or %_sysconfdir/rpm
- Macro files named macros.%name
- Macro files not marked with %config
- Build uses only python/perl/shell+coreutils/lua/BuildRequired langs
- %global, not %define
- Package translating with gettext BuildRequires it
- Package translating with Linguist BuildRequires qt-devel
- Log file locations are sane
- Log files are rotated
- File ops preserve timestamps
- Parallel make
- Scriptlets write only to allowed locations
- %pretrans written in lua
- User, group creation handled correctly (See Packaging:UsersAndGroups)
- Web apps go in /usr/share/%name, not /var/www
- Conflicts are justified
- Patches have appropriate commentary
- Patches not applied directly from RPM_SOURCE_DIR
- Available test suites executed in %check
- sysctl.d files applied in %post with %sysctl_apply
- binfmt.d files applied in %post with %binfmt_apply
- tmpfiles.d used for /run, /run/lock
- Package renaming/replacement handled correctly
- IPv6 enabled if supported and IPv4 remains functional
- Changelogs for CVE fixes mention CVE numbers
- Package builds without network access
- Dependency bootstrapping handled correctly
- TLS-using code follows crypto policies (See Packaging:CryptoPolicies)
Systemd Guidelines
Systemd guidelines: - Traditional service uses a unit file - Non-standard service commands converted to standalone scripts - Unit names are sane - Description= lines do not exceed 80 characters - Documentation field has correct URI format - Service Type= declarations are correct - Service has sane [Service], [Install] sections - Requires=, Wants= used only when necessary - Units do not refer to runlevel*.target - Symlinks used instead of Name= - StandardOutput=, StandardError= used only when necessary - Hardware-activated service not activated by package - Socket-activated service has FESCo approval, correct unit files - Package prefers timer units to cron jobs iff systemd-dependent - Unit files go in %_unitdir - BuildRequires: systemd for %_unitdir macro - Packaged unit files are not %config files - Unit file scriptlets are correct - tmpfiles.d used where needed
SysV Init Script Guidelines
SysVInitScript guidelines: - Init scripts go in /etc/rc.d/init.d - Init scripts not marked with %config - Init script configuration in /etc/sysconfig - Init scripts have 0755 permissions - Packages with unit files put init scripts in -sysvinit subpackage - chkconfig, initscripts Requires, init scripts correct - Daemon-spawning init scripts manage /var/lock/subsys/%name - Init scripts have chkconfig headers - Init script environment variables have reasonable defaults - Init scripts implement all required actions - Init script behavior is sensible - Init script return codes are correct
Cron File Guidelines
Cron file guidelines: - Custom crontabs in /etc/cron.d have 0640 permissions - Custom crontabs in /etc/cron.d refer to executables in normal places - Cron jobs marked with %config(noreplace) - Cron job file names match package name, lack + and . - Package with cron job Requires: crontabs
Java Guidelines
Java guidelines:
- Javadocs go in javadoc subpackage
- Prefer split JARs over monolithic
- JAR file names correct
- JAR files go in %{_javadir} or %{_javadir}-$version
- Compat package jar, pom files are versioned
- Javadocs go in unversioned %{_javadocdir}/%{name}
- javadoc subpackage is noarch
- BuildRequires java-devel, jpackage-utils
- Requires java, jpackage-utils
- Dependencies on java/java-devel >= 1.6.0 add epoch 1
- pom.xml files, if available, are installed along with their depmaps
- Spec contains correct maven code
- pom.xml files, if patched, are patched sanely
- Wrapper script in %{_bindir}
- GCJ AOT bits follow GCJ guidelines
- No devel package
- EE API-providing packages have correct Provides
- EE API-using packages mage appropriate Requires, build-classpath
- JNI-using JARs go in %_jnidir
- JNI shared objects go in %{_libdir}/%{name}
- Calls to System.loadLibrary replaced w/ System.load w/ full .so path
- Bundled JAR files not included or used for build
- No Javadoc %post/%ghost
- No class-path elements in JAR manifests
Perl Guidelines
Perl guidelines: - "GPL+ or Artistic", not "Artistic or GPL+" - Module requirements use virtual perl(modname) syntax - Spec BuildRequires correct core modules, not perl-devel - Spec contains correct MODULE_COMPAT_ Requires - Requires/Provides are sane - CPAN URL tag is not versioned - All tests enabled where possible - Use Build.PL if present unless justified otherwise - .h files not split into -devel package
Python Guidelines
Python guidelines: - Runtime Requires correct - BuildRequires: python2-devel and/or python3-devel - Python 2 modules Provide: python2-* - Python 3 modules Provide: python3-* - Main python version modules Provide: python-* - Spec uses versioned path macros - All .py files packaged with .pyc, .pyo counterparts - INSTALLED_FILES not used for %files list - Includes .egg-info files/directories when generated - Bytecode only optimized with appropriate optimization levels - .py not under site-libs byte-compiled against correct runtimes - Non-split packages named python2-* and python3-* - Unversioned executables use OS-preferred runtime when possible - Versioned executables provided with both -X and -X.Y suffixes - Eggs built from source - Eggs do not download deps during build - Compat packages use easy_install -m to avoid conflicts - At least one version of each module is importable w/o version - Provides/Requires properly filtered