[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 19:14:17 UTC 2011


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

Rahul


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