[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: RPM group Policy change taking effect

Pierre-Malo Deniélou pierre-malo.denielou at rhul.ac.uk
Sat Sep 29 16:43:01 CEST 2012


Le 29/09/12 13:37,Oliver Burger nous adresse ces quelques mots :
> Am 26.09.2012 23:00, schrieb Pierre-Malo Deniélou:
>> Dear fellow packagers,
>>
>> In a few minutes, I will upload a new rpmlint-mageia-policy package that
>> implements the new RPM group policy. Normally, packages that do not
>> follow the new RPM groups will be rejected from the build system.
>> I advise you to run rpmlint on your RPMs, SRPMs or spec files before
>> submtting.
>>
>> The new RPM policy can be consulted at:
>> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policySorry for cutting in late, but...
> 
> There is a new group "Geography" for maps and gps related software...
> Now how to decide wether software is "Sciences/Geosciences" where the
> whole GIS stack is located right now or "Geography"?

The whole GIS stack goes to Geography.

Sciences/Geosciences is from now on only for Scientific software related
to Geology and Environmental sciences.

Cheers,
-- 
Malo


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