Re: Packages which use banned tags

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The packaging guidelines indicate that the following tags must not be
> used:
>   Copyright:
>   Packager:
>   Vendor:
>   PreReq:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Tags_and_Sections
>
> I wasn't aware that a package would even build if the first three were
> used, but it seems that a few instances of these tags persist.
>
> Nothing uses Copyright:.
>
> Five packages use Vendor:
>   dpkg etoys gold netbeans storhaug
>
> Packager: is used by mcollective
>
> apmud has Prereq: chkconfig which is obviously a sign that something is
> amiss.  But it's also marked ExclusiveArch: ppc which means that it
> hasn't existed anywhere since we dropped 32 bit ppc around, what, Fedora
> 12?  The only commits are from mass rebuilds and people doing general
> cleanup.
>
> ceph has "PreReq: %fillup_prereq" and I don't even know what that does.
> It seems to be inside of some suse-exclusive block, and so I'm not sure
> what is supposed to happen.  Which is why that kind of thing is not
> permitted in Fedora.  I guess that has to be another of those "nobody
> can touch this" packages.
>
> In any case, I will now proceed to dead.package apmud, remove the few
> Vendor: and Packager: uses and try to pretend ceph does not exist.  But
> for the record, here are the usual (but pleasantly short) lists:
>
> Maintainers by package:
> apmud                dwmw2
> ceph                 branto dachary dmick ke4qqq kkeithle ktdreyer steve stingray
> dpkg                 kanarip sergiomb topdog
> etoys                dsd gavin tuxbrewr

I want intending on retiring eToys in F-29 anyway, it's part of the
Sugar stack, we've not shipped in SoaS for sometime and is for all
intents and purpose dead upstream. I'll do that this week.

> gold                 zaniyah
> mcollective          maxamillion
> netbeans             moceap
> storhaug             kkeithle
>
> Packages by maintainer:
> branto     ceph
> dachary    ceph
> dmick      ceph
> dsd        etoys
> dwmw2      apmud
> gavin      etoys
> kanarip    dpkg
> ke4qqq     ceph
> kkeithle   ceph storhaug
> ktdreyer   ceph
> maxamillion mcollective
> moceap     netbeans
> sergiomb   dpkg
> steve      ceph
> stingray   ceph
> topdog     dpkg
> tuxbrewr   etoys
> zaniyah    gold
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