[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 11:53 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> A tangentially related question about spec files...
>>
>> As a new package maintainer I read the guidelines many a time and
>> noticed that the current spec temples don't quite agree with the
>> packaging guidelines
>>
>> Shouldn't they be updated to no longer include BuildRoot: or %clean as
>> they are obsolete? Or rather that both Fedora versions (F12 and F10
>> respectively) that needed them are EOL'd?
>
> EPEL 4 and 5 needs them

Is it essential that the templates remain the same across distros or
is it more for simplicity of maintaining the package?

Thanks,
Richard