On 10/17/19 9:28 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 13:22 +0000, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On 10/17/19 3:17 PM, Stefan Brüns wrote:
Richard Brown has recently created 100s or 1000s of submit requests removing the Group: tag from all RPMs.
He did so although there was no consensus reached on the openSUSE Factory mailing list.
He did reopen the SRs several times, although he was pointed to the ongoing discussion.
He did reopen the SRs again, even after a last warning a complaint will be filled.
The mass SRs obliterate any other pending SRs with much more important changes, making addressing these much harder.
I just noticed that and I disagree with the method of using the big hammer to enforce such changes without that an agreement has been made.
Also, the SRs contain references to FATE which I'm not sure is even allowed to be used anymore. At least for ECOs, it isn't.
Adrian
The FATE, like the changes the FATE relate to, are over a year old..but unfortunately it is the valid references for the justification of the change.
I'll do my best to summarise here.
Basically the FATE was the discussion involving the YAST team for dropping the last of YaST's functionality that read package Group: tags
And a discussion with our zypper maintainers that confirmed zypper never read the Group tag
The FATE was fixed, with YaST's last Group handling removed over a year ago with the following changes:
https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses-pkg/pull/27 https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt-pkg/pull/58
Therefore, the lack of openSUSE tooling using the tool makes the tag obsolete and prime for cleanup.
Yes, cleanup is nice. In the past we handled this with warning messages in the spec checker which eventually turned into errors. That allowed package maintainers to make the changes at their convenience and didn't require 1 person to spend time to write a script and then mass submit changes that ever package maintainer had to review. ONe example is the move of license files to %license, which is still a warning but spec files are getting fixed. Is there a particular reason this approach was not used for this change? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Architect LINUX Technical Team Lead Public Cloud rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org