Re: Group tag for Java libraries and their documentation

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On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:35 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:26:06AM +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> >>
> >> So what's the official verdict on this?
> >
> > Not official, but the Groups are not used a lot currently, they are
> > superseded by comps. The 'official' list of groups is in
> > /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.6.0/GROUPS
> > but indeed there aren't too many.
> >
> > rpmbiuld doesn't need a Group: anymore, so maybe in the future they
> > could be completly omitted from spec files.
> 
> So any Group-related warnings from rpmlint can be safely ignored?

We decided a while back that as soon as rpm didn't require Group
anymore, we would stop including it. In the interim, you can put
whatever you want in that field.

~spot

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