rpm package format obsolete, deprecate or update

Bug #1327662 reported by Jeff Johnson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
RPM
New
Undecided
Unassigned
lsb
In Progress
Medium
Unassigned
Mandriva
In Progress
Critical

Bug Description

The existing rpm-derived package format in LSB is seriously out of date, and
its inclusion as a mandatory component is beginning to cause problems in that
packaging software cannot move forward, or else is moving forward incompatibly
and simply ignoring that the implementation is no longer particularly
compatible.

LSB packaging should either be completley updated, or deprecated, with waivers
allowed for non-conformance. Given the dearth of LSB conforming rpm-packaged
applications it probably would not hurt for packaging in general to be
"unspecified".

Tags: future lsb rpm
Changed in mandriva:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → In Progress
Jeff Johnson (n3npq)
tags: added: lsb
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