[Fedora-packaging] Group tag for Java libraries and their documentation

Mary Ellen Foster foster at in.tum.de
Wed Dec 10 09:35:22 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:26:06AM +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>>
>> So what's the official verdict on this?
>
> Not official, but the Groups are not used a lot currently, they are
> superseded by comps. The 'official' list of groups is in
> /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.6.0/GROUPS
> but indeed there aren't too many.
>
> rpmbiuld doesn't need a Group: anymore, so maybe in the future they
> could be completly omitted from spec files.

So any Group-related warnings from rpmlint can be safely ignored?

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh




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