On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 13:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
There are heretic movements being made right now to actively kill the Group line, rendering software like rpm-catalog useless to the end-user. Not to mention it nullifies the 3000 or whatever SRs made within the last 2 years, which is a great way to say "thank you, for nothing".
The Group tag is a useless thing - you yourself advocated to replace it with a Tag-based system, not a tree-like system. but yes, RPM should be patched to simply not show it when it's not defined - there is no value in this field.
So I advocate that Group lines must be retained if they exist and are updated.
Disagree - Cleaning up and being consistent is better here. Does not mean that your work is not valued - but hey: plenty of packages I did 15 years ago have been dropped by now. such is life - and evolution keeps on moving. Cheers, Dominique