[Bug 1044] pkgchk reporting errors when checking appbat packages

------- Additional Comments From [email protected]  2005-07-08 11:34 -------
Along with the strategy to only add tags that add value, we are also trying to 
document what is really being used out there. For the packager tag (1015), it 
adds as much value as the URL tag (1020). Either way I think the packager tag 
should be added as an optional tag since it doesn't impact the ability to 
install the package. Also, in my non-scientific survey of packages close to 
90% of them include this tag.

For the tags in the 257 to 269 range, I don't think there is a way to avoid 
having them present in the package if rpm is the tool used to create the 
package. Almost every ISV who creates rpm packages wil use rpm to create them, 
so we should at least be aware of these tags, even if we just ignore them as 
duplicates of other tags.

On the HEADERI18NTABLE tag, I don't think it should be required. I have not 
found a single package that has this tag present. This includes packages from 
the Polish Linux Distribution which supports eleven different locales. 
Additionally, when a package includes multiple locale support it confuses 
pkgchk even more. It reports problems because pkgchk is only expecting single 
tags for summary and description even though there will be multiple tags, one 
each for each locale.    
 
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