jpackage.org-derived Groups

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 05 mars 2009 à 12:15 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit :
> >>>>> "JJ" == Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> JJ> I have been dinged repeatedly in reviews for using the group
> JJ> Development/Libraries/Java.
> 
> Why?  We have no guidelines relating to the use of the Group tag.  You
> can use what you want.  If someone's dinging you, they're probably
> just parroting an rpmlint complaint.  Perhaps it would be more
> productive to get the Fedora build of rpmlint to stop complaining
> about Group altogether.  I don't see a need to add a guideline
> indicating that there is no guideline.

People take what rpmlint says as the letter of the law because it's too
convenient. That is not going to change.

It would IMHO do a lot of good if FPC reviewed all the existing rpmlint
errors and warnings, had the ones Fedora does not care about disabled in
our package, and asked its maintainer to pass new ones for review before
they're activated.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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