On Thursday, 14 October 2004, at 14:36:15 (-0400), Matthew Miller wrote: > It's not pedantry; it's the *difference*. Except that there isn't any difference. > The Copyright tag is deprecated and should _replaced_ by the License > tag. According to whom? Neither of these refer to it as deprecated: http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html#S3-RPM-INSIDE-LICENSE-TAG http://rpm-devel.colug.net/max-rpm/s1-rpm-specref-preamble.html#S3-RPM-SPECREF-LICENSE > The code you refer to is just there to keep old packages from > breaking. To quote an RPM developer (name withheld to protect the guilty): ;-) "It's the same bleeping tag in the header; who cares?" Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -- Ingrid Bergman _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
