Well what about the "distro maintainer"? Basically your argument sucks balls it's like "I'll add Conflicts: aaa_base because I'm the package maintainer".

Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) - over 4 years ago

author

Group lines are not mandatory and does not affect any UI relative to the user. If you want them you can keep them on your software but you can't force others to do so.

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Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) - over 4 years ago

reviewer

does not affect any UI relative to the user.

That is a lie. Tools that show these groups, such as rpm-catalog, are affected by the change.

Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) - over 4 years ago

reviewer

The Release Manager (me) does not object to the Group: tags being dropped

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Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) - over 4 years ago

reviewer

Surely there are ought to be more people than just you (just think of the so-called "bus factor") that have some say in where the distro is going...

I have never really seen a formal process where that was... "decided". Not that there's a lot of process in openSUSE anyway. But judging from the wiki page https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Specfile_guidelines , there are two minute mentions of the Group tag, one of which suggests it must be used (near "Documentation").