Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

[Damian L Brasher]

Hi List

Referring to sections of Packaging Guidelines:

No longer necessary to explicitly include %defattr at the beginning of %
files.

and the fact that the BuildRoot tag, eve if defined, is ignored.

After reviewing packages I have suggested %defattr is not strictly
necessary. I have also removed %defattr(-,root,root,-) from my
contributed spec file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644711

Is this correct, i.e. do the package review request authors need to be
notified?

i.e. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720085

(My current reviews state I am new to FP maintainers)

Regards Damian L Brasher


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