On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:20:30PM +0100, Damian L Brasher wrote: > Hi List > > Referring to sections of Packaging Guidelines: > > No longer necessary to explicitly include %defattr at the beginning of % > files. > > and the fact that the BuildRoot tag, eve if defined, is ignored. > > After reviewing packages I have suggested %defattr is not strictly > necessary. I have also removed %defattr(-,root,root,-) from my > contributed spec file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644711 > > Is this correct, i.e. do the package review request authors need to be > notified? > > i.e. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720085
They are now optional but there's no need to force people to be rid of them. In particular, some people like to build a package for both Fedora and EPEL-5. In this case, a lot of the things that are optional in Fedora have to remain for the EPEL package. -Toshio
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