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). * create a bug report tracking the packages that need to change group. * mail -dev about the packages that are currently in wrong groups (even with respect to the current policy) so that their maintainers can take proper action within 2 weeks. After that, I will change the groups myself * mail -dev about the packages that are correct with respect to current policy but need to be updated to respect the new policy. For these packages, the deadline will be beta1 (12/12) to complete the changes, which means that I will start doing the moves by myself by Alpha 3 (06/11). I will mail -dev at each step on the way, so don't worry too much now. I hope the new RPM groups will make it easier for everyone to find packages in rpmdrake and other tools. It will be a bit annoying for every packager, but it's a good opportunity to revisit many package specs before mga3 and make Mageia better. Cheers, -- Malo
