Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 05/26/2009 01:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:35:23AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> On 05/26/2009 09:50 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>> The Packaging Committee will meet Tuesday, 2009-05-26 at 17:00UTC in
>>>> the #fedora-meeting channel on chat.freenode.net.
>>>>
>>>> FPC works from the agenda at
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GuidelinesTodo; there's just
>>>> one item currently on the agenda:
>>>>
>>>> Phase out Buildroot -
>>>>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Phase_out_buildroot_tag_%28draft%29
>>>
>>> How about phasing out Group tag as well?
>>
>> It seems like the Group tag is now optional in upstream RPM (since
>> somewhere around F-11).
>
> Yes but there should be packaging guidelines adding a note that you can
> just drop it similar to built root. Does apt, smart and synaptic support
> comps though? do we care?

Smart in GUI-mode and Synaptic currently use the Group tag to, well, group 
the packages for viewing: http://laiskiainen.org/tmp/smartpm-groups.png. 
Apt (and smartpm in cli-mode) dont care.

Without spec specified Group they all get lumped under "Unspecified" but 
as the group tags are already wildly inconsistent, full of typos etc... 
dunno if it's such a big loss.

 	- Panu -