On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:27 -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 ?
> 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.
> Ideas ? Opinions ? Is this a bug ?
I guess this is a two-level deprecation scheme -- first it was
deprecated without any visible effect, now you get a warning and at some
point later all the code around a Copyright: tag will vanish. Sometimes
you have to play hardball if you want people to change something ;-),
otherwise you'll be dragging around such old cruft forever.
just my â0.02,
Nils
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