The FATE, like the changes the FATE relate to, are over a year old..but unfortunately it is the valid references for the justification of the change.

I'll do my best to summarise here.

Basically the FATE was the discussion involving the YAST team for dropping the last of YaST's functionality that read package Group: tags

And a discussion with our zypper maintainers that confirmed zypper never read the Group tag

The FATE was fixed, with YaST's last Group handling removed over a year ago with the following changes:

https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses-pkg/pull/27 https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt-pkg/pull/58

Therefore, the lack of openSUSE tooling using the tool makes the tag obsolete and prime for cleanup.

Adam Mizerski (etamPL) - about 5 years ago

target maintainer

I accepted this, forwarded to Factory and it got rejected by jengelh with response "The group removal is currently under debate."