[Rpm-metadata] xml update

[Jeff Licquia]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 04:50, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Hmm, why are packager and group considered rpm-specific? Those exist in .deb's
> too ("maintainer" and "section"). 

Maintainer <-> Packager could be done, if desired (or not).  RPM Group
and Debian Section are a little more different from each other, so I'm
not sure it's correct to consider them to be equivalent.

> Also I think the dependency information isn't
> really format specific, apart from stuff like rpm doesn't have "suggests" or
> priority.
> 
> Sorry if this has been already discussed to death, I haven't followed the
> discussion here too closely simply because lack of time :(

We did talk about it a bit.  One of the problems that might have
influenced this decision is the problem of or-relationships, which
Debian supports in all relationship types but RPM doesn't support at
all.  We weren't able to come up with a way of representing that which
wouldn't be wrong on one format or the other.