On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 03:48 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
>>
>> here's the meeting logs where disttag was made mandatory:
>>
>>
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-12
>> -04/fpc.2014-12-04-17.02.log.html
>>
>> Looks like most of those packages could have it added but there are
>> a
>> few exceptions (the fedora-release-* packages were noted in that
>> meeting).
>>
>> -Toshio
>
> Thanks for the link. I'm not sure I understood the reason for having
> an exception for fedora-{release,repos}*. The log says:
>
> 17:41:58 <tibbs|w> There's no reason for them to do so, since their
> version is tied to the distro version.
>
> Which is true, but why is that a reason to grant them an exception?
> Would it cause any problems it they contained a distro tag as well?
>
Yes, because this is the package that provides the definition of the
distro tag. It couldn't install itself.