packaging-committee

#1211 Update GAP packaging guidelines
Merged by tibbs. Opened by jjames.
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I am about to update the GAP stack in Fedora due to the release of GAP 4.12.0. The builds have all been done in a COPR to work out issues in advance. The GAP guidelines need some updates to reflect the state of these new package builds.

Executive summary of the changes:
- Add libgap to the list of core GAP packages
- New SHOULD: do not install into versioned directories
- Allow transitive dependency on gap-core
- Document %gap_copy_docs for installing documentation
- Remove obsolete Testing section
- Add Architecture section describing %gap_arches
- Add Other RPM macros section describing %gap_version, %gap_dir, and %gap_arch

There are no EPEL packages for the GAP stack, so removal of the Testing section will not impact EPEL.

About the only thing I can say is that it would be nice if that super-long line acquired some semantic line breaks, and that it's better if line breaks are added in a separate commit from content changes so that it's easy to see what actually changed. However, these are minor issues and the changes seem reasonable and not at all controversial.

Thanks.

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