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Update list of deprecated / obsolete RPM tags #2327
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Of those, only RPMSIGTAG_PGP5 is actually obsolete. The signature length is just a stupid tag and for that the docs need to be updated. |
Well, I did include "deprecated". I think that still applies? IMO if a tag is "stupid and pointless" and doesn't need to be written then it is effectively deprecated and should be documented as such, yes?. My main point is to just have it documented somewhere. There's also a bunch of tags which could be present in either header, but really ought to be in only one of the headers, and that's not very clearly documented right now either. i.e. |
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This header is deprecated and unused by default in newer versions of rpm: rpm-software-management/rpm#2327
There are a number of RPM tags that are no longer useful and are essentially deprecated which have not yet been officially marked as such in documentation or in code comments.
Some examples:
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