On Seg, 2016-08-01 at 09:17 -0600, Dave Johansen wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> A year ago, I learned that Group tag is obsolete [1] I remember ask
>> the
>> reason and is something about comps.xml that I don't remember
>> neither
>> find on google , but for projects that still use repoview, Group
>> tag is
>> needed. So the questions are, have we any replacement for repoview
>> ? or
>> another way to show one repo content ? and why the Group tag is
>> obsolete ? can someone remind me why. And how we now the group of
>> one
>> package ? .
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> [1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239067#c1
> Here's the FPC ticket about it:
>
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/199
Thanks I was able to find the reason:
RPM in Fedora 18 does not require the presence of the Group tag in the
spec file. If the tag is defined, it will be ignored.
Not ignored, it just became optional in rpm 4.6.0 in 2009. So its
somewhat old news. The group tag being obsolete (in that practically
nothing uses it for anything) is actually even older thing.
- Panu -