Re: Fedora 30 System-Wide Change proposal: Remove the Group: Tag From All Packages

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:28:16PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_Group_Tag
> 
> == Summary ==
> Remove the Group: tag from over 9000 source packages.
> 
> == Owner ==
> * Name: Jason Tibbitts (tibbs)
> * Email: tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> I will remove the Group: tag from all specfiles in Fedora dist-git
> which still have it, verify that the result is syntactically correct,
> then commit and push the change.  Since this is a relatively minor
> changeI am not planning to bump Release: or add %changelog entries,
> but I do that if it is deemed necessary.
> 
> I am proposing this as an official change instead of just doing it (as
> with other low risk packaging cleanups) because:
> * It would be by far the largest mass package change we would ever
> have attempted.
> * It does technically cause a visible change in the resulting package.
> If queried, rpm will show the group as "Unspecified"
Can we patch rpm not to show this useless line?

Zbyszek
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