On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 13:21 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 02/16/2018 12:54 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:41:18PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > Actually, inspired by this thread, rpm will start at least warning about > > > BuildRoot tag in the next release or so. > > > > > > The reason for silently ignoring all this time was to allow spec sharing > > > between old and new rpm versions, but I guess the time has come to bury it > > > for good. > > > > Please do not code packaging policies into rpm, that's what tools > > like rpmlint are for. > > I don't see long, long since obsoleted rpm tag being packaging policy > but a technical rpm matter. > > Not everybody runs rpmlint for everything they produce, on the contrary > I suspect it's fairly small percentage of packagers out there that do. > If rpm itself doesn't directly complain about such things they'll simply > never get cleaned up. ...if only we could collectively decide to write less guidelines and more rationales for rules enforced by tools... One can always dream. In this particular case IMHO it would've been perfectly acceptable for koji to start bombing on builds with specs containing BuildRoot -Yanko _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
