On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:57:38PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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. Sorry, yes, I was specifically referring to packaging policy. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Manager, Installer Engineering Team Red Hat, Inc. | Westford, MA | EST5EDT -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
