[Fedora-packaging] Proposal: Remove BuildRequires: exceptions from the guidelines

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Tue May 5 11:40:26 UTC 2015


On Tuesday, 05 May 2015 at 01:34, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
[...]
> It is important that your package list all necessary build dependencies
> using the BuildRequires: tag. You may assume that enough of an
> environment exists for RPM to function and execute basic shell scripts,
> but you should not assume any other packages are present as RPM
> dependencies and anything brought into the buildroot by the build system
> may change over time.

+1. Thanks for working on this.

Regards,
Dominik
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