Re: [Fedora-packaging] Group tag for Java libraries and their documentation
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:35 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Patrice Dumas
<pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:26:06AM +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>>
>> So what's the official verdict on this?
>
> Not official, but the Groups are not used a lot currently, they are
> superseded by comps. The 'official' list of groups is in
> /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.6.0/GROUPS
> but indeed there aren't too many.
>
> rpmbiuld doesn't need a Group: anymore, so maybe in the future they
> could be completly omitted from spec files.
So any Group-related warnings from rpmlint can be safely ignored?
We decided a while back that as soon as rpm didn't require Group
anymore, we would stop including it. In the interim, you can put
whatever you want in that field.
~spot