On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 15:56 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what purpose does the URL field serve nowadays but it looks 
> > like it 
> > can be removed from the spec file (and RPM for that matter)!
> 
> No, please. It could be made *optional*. But there are certainly cases
> where the upstream is non-discoverable - the generic-release one is a
> fun one, for instance. There are cases where a project has forked, and
> Google does not make it particularly obvious which side of the fork is
> which. It's not a useless field.

I'd vote for optional, but there are plenty of other useless fields in spec
files.  Group, for instance.  Considering we don't even use those groupings.

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David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com>
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