Is the guidelines BuildRoot preferred?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:15 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.  
And some members (me, at least) disagree on this disagreement.

Ralf