Spec URL: http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/surfer/surfer.spec SRPM URL: http://jjames.fedorapeople.org/surfer/surfer-0.0.304-1.fc14.src.rpm Description: Surfer is a program to visualize real algebraic geometry in real-time. The surfaces visualized are given by the zero set of a polynomial equation in 3 variables. Surfer is based on the program Surf (surf-geometry in Fedora, due to a name clash) and has been developed for the exhibition IMAGINARY, organized by the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach and created for the Year of Mathematics 2008 in Germany. This package is an optional component of SINGULAR, which is a component of SAGE.
%{_datadir}/surfer %exclude %{_datadir}/surfer/gallery These directories and their contents are not properly owned by your package. Please put a / after the name to do so. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UnownedDirectories#Wildcarding_Files_inside_a_Created_Directory
(In reply to comment #1) > These directories and their contents are not properly owned by your package. > Please put a / after the name to do so. The trailing slash is optional. It doesn't add any semantics to the path expression. However, it could help packagers to visually distinguish between files and folders.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > > These directories and their contents are not properly owned by your package. > > Please put a / after the name to do so. > > The trailing slash is optional. It doesn't add any semantics to the path > expression. However, it could help packagers to visually distinguish between > files and folders. Anyway, this is the style as mentioned in the packaging guidelines. And yes, it helps packagers and reviewers, really. Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of the validity in the filelist.
(In reply to comment #1) > %{_datadir}/surfer > %exclude %{_datadir}/surfer/gallery > > These directories and their contents are not properly owned by your package. > Please put a / after the name to do so. That is incorrect. Those directories and their contents ARE properly owned by the package, as I already pointed out when you made the same comment about the surf-geometry package. Please stop making this false claim.
Sorry for the blurb. The folder are properly owned by your package. I was a bit mislead by the packaging guidelines.
Further experience shows that this software is too unstable, and upstream is essentially dead. I am withdrawing this review request. Users of Singular will have to look elsewhere for a visualizer.