[Fedora-packaging] BR in ReviewGuidelines out-of-date

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 14:56:23 UTC 2015


> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/497
>
>  Announcement text:
>
> The BuildRequires? section of the guidelines has been revised;
> the exceptions list is gone. The release engineering folks are free
> to define the buildroot and rpm is free to change its dependency list.

Since then, the

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines

are out-of-date. The item

  MUST: All build dependencies must be listed in BuildRequires, except for any that are listed in the exceptions section of the Packaging Guidelines ; inclusion of those as BuildRequires is optional. Apply common sense.

contains a link to an anchor that no longer exists.

The section about BuildRequires is this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2


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