On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:27:17AM -0500, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > Hi Jeff - > Having just upgraded to rpm-4.4.1-0.18, rpmbuild now refuses to build > DHCP with the current dhcp.spec - I had to change > 'Copyright: distributable' > to > 'License: distributable' > rpmbuild rejected the 'Copyright' tag with the message: > " > error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright > error: line 6: Unknown tag: Copyright: distributable > " > This seems just silly to me. > RPM obviously recognizes the "Legacy syntax" - why not > just turn this into a warning instead of an error ? Copyright has been deprecated since rpm 4.0 was released IIRC. So we've maintained compatibility long enough for people to change their specs. > Now many packages will fail to build and will have to be > rebuilt simply because of this new incompatible spec file > syntax change - I think RPM should try to be backward > compatible regarding spec file syntax. It has been, but it's time to move on. > Ideas ? Opinions ? Is this a bug ? It's a bug in your packaging you should be using License. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
