https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2216
Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> changed:
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--- Comment #12 from Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> 2012-04-07 11:33:41 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #11)
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > > -To my knowledge %defattr(-, root, root) shouldn't be required, but to
be
> > > honest I've never used it before.
> >
> > I never really understood that. I used to put it because I saw it in a lot of
> > places. Anyway I removed that.
>
> I believe that is for compatibility with RedHat EL 5, and unless you plan to
> package for EPEL 5, it's pointless. As well I'm only currently maintaining
love
> for Fedora 15, 16, 17, devel/rawhide
Right, %defattr is there in a lot of packages simply because it never got
removed
it is not needed anymore these days...
It's not needed for EL-5 even; it became redundant with rpm 4.4, so the last
supported release that needed it was EL-4, which is now EOL.
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