On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 07:17:00PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 11. 11. 22 17:24, Sandro wrote:
> >I'm not quite sure why pulling in an additional supplemental
> >dependency would be considered a breaking change. Is it because
> >rpmlint behaves differently with the new license definitions?
> 
> Yes. Suppose I am running a Fedora 36 system with rpmlint installed
> and I use it to validate spec files for RHEL 9. When I install
> rpmlint-fedora-license-data, a huge bulk of licenses that were not
> valid when I started to use Fedora 36 and that are not valid for
> RHEL 9 are suddenly valid.

This issue sounds like it'd be better solved by using RHEL 9 for the
checks.  Or the rather more complicated solution of creating a new
‘rpmlint --release=rhel-9’ flag.

Rich.

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