On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:20:30PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote:
Hi List
Referring to sections of Packaging Guidelines:
No longer necessary to explicitly include %defattr at the beginning of %
files.
and the fact that the BuildRoot tag, eve if defined, is ignored.
After reviewing packages I have suggested %defattr is not strictly
necessary. I have also removed %defattr(-,root,root,-) from my
contributed spec file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644711
Is this correct, i.e. do the package review request authors need to be
notified?
i.e.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720085
They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid of them.
In particular, some people like to build a package for both Fedora and
EPEL-5. In this case, a lot of the things that are optional in Fedora have
to remain for the EPEL package.
-Toshio