Is the guidelines BuildRoot preferred?

[Rex Dieter]

Peter Gordon wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> [...]
>>> In the Guidelines, there is
>>> The preferred value for the BuildRoot tag is
>>> .....

>>> What [does it] means exactly? I was under the impression that this was
>>> a MUST item.

>> If the Guidelines don't *say* MUST, it isn't.  So, no.

> Well, alot of the Guidelines don't explicitly require a strict convention.
> However, for the sake of clarity and because this is generally a blocker
> on review requests, I believe it best for this guideline to be considered
> a MUST.

Some members of the packaging committee (me, at least) disagree making this
a MUST.   Of course, it's a reviewers' prerogative how seriously to treat
non-MUST items.   IMO, in this case, since it is not a MUST item,
non-broken BuildRoots (that don't match the "preferred" value) shouldn't be
blocker.

-- Rex