Is the guidelines BuildRoot preferred?

[Rex Dieter]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> 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.

Hence, why the current guidelines don't say this is a MUST item. (:

-- Rex