Not a review, but a quick comment (as this hit me when I first submitted
lucidlife for review): You don't really need the Requires: line in the main
package, as that is redundant (the BuildRequires: *-devel things will pull in
the .so name dependencies).

Thanks. I had some problems with another package I've submitted, and made a new
release. But, I made the changes before seeing this, so it still has the
Requires and BuildRequires for now.

Spec Name or Url: http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/bit.spec
SRPM Name or Url:
http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/fedora/4/srpms/bit-0.1.27-1.src.rpm

Just a few comments, as I am still awaiting a sponsor, so cannot do a full
review, but:

1) Source: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libbit/bit-0.1.27.tar.gz 
can be replaced with  
Source: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libbit/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

2) the "-n bit-0.1.27" seems to be redundant in the %prep section

Right on both counts. When I first created the .spec file I wasn't sure if I was
going to need to vary the package name from the distribution name, so I make
them separate. Since I don't need to, I can eliminate that bit of cruft.

Thanks.

A few minor tweaks, including cleanup of the Source tag and the %setup section.

Spec Name or Url: http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/bit.spec

SRPM Name or Url:
http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/fedora/4/srpms/bit-0.1.27-2.src.rpm

* Directory %{_datadir}/bit/ not included in -devel package:

    $ rpmqfcheck.pl bit-devel-0.1.27-2.i386.rpm 
    Orphaned dir: /usr/share/bit

* Package -devel should "Requires: boost-devel" regardless of whether
conexus-devel requires this, too. It includes boost headers itself.

* The two %doc files AUTHORS and COPYING are included in both the -devel
package and the main package, which should be avoided.

* The -devel should "Requires: pkgconfig" since without using
pkg-config's --cflags and --libs commands it would be difficult
to find out all the include search paths and libraries

* DNS-based random mirror download location for SF.net actually is of
the generic form (and command-line compatible!):
http://download.sourceforge.net/conexus/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2

* bit-0.1.27/bit/tuplebase.h fails to compile due to extra qualification

* tests/test_istream fails (attachment following...)
Summary:  11 passed, 2 failed
WARNING: 2 TESTS FAILED!!!

Created attachment 126863 [details]
failed test output

Created attachment 129297 [details]
bit unit test results

Spec Name or Url: http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/bit.spec

SRPM Name or Url:
http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/fedora/5/srpms/bit-0.2.0-1.src.rpm

Many changes and new releases since the last update.

- Orphaned directory
  - Fixed in 0.2.0, data_DIST was missing in Makefile.am that had the .dtd and
.xml files that get installed

- Missing Requires:
  - Added pkgconfig and boost-devel
  - Added cppunit
  - Removed gtkmm24-devel (gtkmm widgets are now in bitgtkmm)

- Duplicate AUTHORS and COPYING are fixed

- Download location changed to
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libbit/%(name)-%(version).tar.bz2
  - I kept getting timeouts with download.sourceforge.net, but prdownloads works.

- Extra qualification is fixed in 0.2.0 release.

- Unit tests migrated to cppunit and extended in 0.2.0. (they're good now; see
attachment)

- Reference doc handling has been changed to reflect the way it was handled in
cairomm

New files:
Spec Name or Url: http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/bit.spec

SRPM Name or Url:
http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/fedora/5/srpms/bit-0.2.1-2.src.rpm

Changes:
- Added AUTHORS and COPYING to bit main package
- Changed download dir from prdownloads.sf.net to download.sf.net
- Added cppunit to BuildRequires
- Removed doxygen and graphviz BuildRequires since docs are now in dist
- Changed doc directory to represent new location in dist

It must be "BuildRequires: cppunit-devel" instead of cppunit.

Apart from that:

  * reported issues fixed
  * packager is upstream
  * APPROVED

Warnings:

 - compiler warnings about type-punning are worrisome
   (I see dangerous C-style casts in the code)

Suggested cleanup:

 - Remove *.md5, *.map and *.dot files from the HTML documentation
   (91 files in total).

Hints:

 - Note that "mv docs/reference/html ." in your %install section
   breaks --short-circuit installs, which are _very_ useful during
   debugging of spec files. As a rule of thumb, never modify your
   source tree in a way that repeating commands would fail. In this
   case, better "cp" the html tree to somewhere.
   "rpm --short-circuit -ivh bit.spec" should work again and again.