On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:57:38PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On 02/28/2014 09:54 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 15:56 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not sure what purpose does the URL field serve nowadays but it looks
like it
>>>can be removed from the spec file (and RPM for that matter)!
>>
>>No, please. It could be made *optional*. But there are certainly cases
>>where the upstream is non-discoverable - the generic-release one is a
>>fun one, for instance. There are cases where a project has forked, and
>>Google does not make it particularly obvious which side of the fork is
>>which. It's not a useless field.
>
>I'd vote for optional, but there are plenty of other useless fields in spec
>files. Group, for instance. Considering we don't even use those groupings.
URL is and has always been optional. Group used to be mandatory but
has been optional for about five years by now. Fedora policies could
of course differ with the technical side.
Sorry, yes, I was specifically referring to packaging policy.
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