On 10/18/19 6:04 PM, Dave Plater wrote:
On 17/10/2019 20:43, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Let the package maintainers decide if they want the Group tags or not. If that concept would work, they will choose one. If there is no working concept, they will remove it. Quite simple.
The one thing I can't understand is what bad thing the Group: tag does to a package, why stop at removing Group: the Release: tag does nothing in openSUSE packages and is set automatically by obs. I think of all the work I had to do to satisfy rpm-lint with the correct group and now it's just being deleted wholesale for no real reason.
Well there was consensus and a bit ago that it was so far out of date and while the categories might have made rpmlint happy but are completely inconsistent with each other (see Richard's email in another thread). Generally once a new major SLE / openSUSE Leap release is out and working people see it as a good time to clean packages up and in this case now that the tools have been update to accept the fact we no longer want groups its easy to slowly clean everything up just by getting spec cleaner to remove the field over time. I guess the difference between "Release" and "Group" is that all the other rpm based distro's have also decided to remove groups. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B