On 02/28/2014 09:54 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 15:56 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
I'm not sure what purpose does the URL field serve nowadays but it looks like it
can be removed from the spec file (and RPM for that matter)!
No, please. It could be made *optional*. But there are certainly cases
where the upstream is non-discoverable - the generic-release one is a
fun one, for instance. There are cases where a project has forked, and
Google does not make it particularly obvious which side of the fork is
which. It's not a useless field.
I'd vote for optional, but there are plenty of other useless fields in spec
files. Group, for instance. Considering we don't even use those groupings.
URL is and has always been optional. Group used to be mandatory but has
been optional for about five years by now. Fedora policies could of
course differ with the technical side.
And FWIW no, I dont follow the "there are some packages with incorrect
URL, thus the field must be useless and should be removed" logic here.
Upstream project website does not change twice a week, more like perhaps
twice a decade if even that. If the package maintainers role is not to
save all the users from the trouble of doing the same job, then why are
we packaging stuff in the first place. Just google it up!
- Panu -
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