On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Igor Gnatenko < ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > After reading all responses in thread which is mentioned in subject I > think we > need to develop some policies / procedures how to deal with old cruft, for > example: > > - - Requires: systemd-units > - - Requires: /bin/mktemp > > Former has changed to systemd in guidelines X years ago (not sure when > exactly, > before I did my first package which contains systemd units, so I would > guess > something like 5-6 years ago). Latter was removed more then decade ago but > we > kept old Provides around for compatibility and seems after 10 years people > still rely on them. > > Do you have ideas how policy / procedure of removal those should look like? Maybe a good first step would be to add detection of these to rpmlint? I usually try the skim my spec files for modernization stuff but I know I don't catch everything. A tool (rpmlint or otherwise) would be very helpful. Thanks, Richard
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