[Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Wed Sep 26 17:24:13 CEST 2012


On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:

> Dear packagers,
> 
> Tonight, following the packagers meeting, we agreed on a new RPM group
> policy.
> 
> The current policy is described at:
> http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
> 
> The new policy is presented at:
> http://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RPMGroupRevamp
> 
> This change in policy means that I will take the following actions by
> the end of the week:
>   * update the wikipage http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
>   * patch rpmlint to refuse new packages that do not follow the new
>     policy (I will send another email to -dev just before submitting
>     the new rpmlint).

On build system, we also need to update youri to use the old rpmlint
config for already released distributions.



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