License Rebuild Checklist

General information: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki

Packaging: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager

Useful commands:

$ tar -tzvf *.pkg.tar.gz |less

$ namcap PKGBUILD *.pkg.tar.gz

Checklist

Check upstream if there are any newer release
- If so:
  - check for soname bump
  - check if other packages depends on a specific version of this package (eg. mysql, mysql-clients, libmysqlclient)
    - If so: Warn other builders so they skip the packages that needs to be rebuilt
Check bug tracker for any bugs especially easy ones to fix
Check if license is missing/valid. BSD, MIT, ZLIB(?) and custom license must be installed.
Check for FHS man pages, info pages and docs
- For info pages:
  - add texinfo depends
  - remove ${pkgdir}/usr/share/info/dir
  - gzip info pages
  - add install file - prototype: /usr/share/pacman/proto-info.install
adding backup array as necessary
In some cases the source is no longer available by the upstream authors (eg, project home page has disappeared) but can still be found on third-party mirrors like Debian, Gentoo, etc. Instead of just linking to these mirrors, put a copy locally on ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/. This way we won't be using other distros mirror bandwidth and we'll still have the source if they decide to remove the package from their repo.
specific sourceforge mirrors shouldn't be used, instead use http://downloads.sourceforge.net
some packages still use find to remove libtool files. Replace that with the !libtool option
Replace 'export MAKEFLAGS="-j1"' by !makeflags option
Remove any old unused patches/files from svn
Check permissions of static libs, they should be 644.
esthetic: change $startdir/src to $srcdir and $startdir/pkg to $pkgdir
don't forget md5sums