Inclusion/Exclusion of BuildRoot tag and %defattr

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:20:30PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote:
> 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

They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid of them.
In particular, some people like to build a package for both Fedora and
EPEL-5.  In this case, a lot of the things that are optional in Fedora have
to remain for the EPEL package.

-Toshio
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