[opensuse-announce] openSUSE Packaging guidelines update November/2012

Hi all,

this is the next announcenment of changes in our packaging guidelines
have happened last month.

Content
===============
1.) Removed pages
2.) Updated Ruby guidelines
3.) Various small changes
4.) Boring diffstat

Removed pages
==============

Two new pages were added into Category:Packaging_documentation [1]

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Lisp
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_vdr

however none of those has been properly announced on -packaging, neither
-factory as expected by guidelines change process[2]. Therefor I've removed
the Category:Packaging_documentation from them and will inform affected
users and ask them to go through the process.

Updated Ruby guidelines
=======================

This page has been the one, which got most updates

* how to build against ruby-common to get autogenerated
BuildRequires/Requires
* how to update gem packages to a new version
* how to deal with ommited BuildRequires generated by gem2rpm
* as well as more details about how they are automatically handled

see http://bit.ly/11vX52P for a detailed diff, if interested. Kudos to Adam
Spiers for such great changes

Various small changes
=====================

Several pages got minor editations, which does not fall into own
category, but should be mentioned

* added real-world example to OBS tips and trick page about using
multiple repositories [3]
* creating a changes got more examples and recommendations [4]
* fonts packaging page got some bugfixes [5]

Boring diffstat
===============

openSUSE:Build Service Tips and Tricks | 17 +++-
openSUSE:Build Service Tutorial | 4 +-
openSUSE:Build Service cross distribution howto | 2 +-
openSUSE:Creating a changes file (RPM) | 37 +++++--
openSUSE:Java RPM Macros | 3 +-
openSUSE:Package group guidelines | 4 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Fonts | 39 +++++---
openSUSE:Packaging Go | 2 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Java | 3 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Lisp | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++
openSUSE:Packaging Lua | 4 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Multiple Version guidelines | 2 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Patches guidelines | 10 +-
openSUSE:Packaging Ruby | 102 +++++++++++++++++++-
openSUSE:Packaging guidelines | 9 +-
openSUSE:Packaging guidelines change process | 4 +-
openSUSE:Packaging scriptlet snippets | 2 +-
openSUSE:Packaging vdr | 91 +++++++++++++++++
19 files changed, 416 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging Lisp
create mode 100644 openSUSE:Packaging vdr

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Packaging_documentation
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process
[3] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks#Adding_multiple_repositories_to_a_project
[4] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Creating_a_changes_file_%28RPM%29
[5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts

Regards
Michal Vyskocil