On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:12:15PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> A lot of packages include a spec.in file which is then passed
through sed
> to install the version number in the spec file before a tarball is
> generated. Eliminating this extra step would make it easier for upstreams
> to provide RPM support by eliminating this extra step.
Yes; but you still have the rpm revision number. I am arguing for its
removal entirely. That's one less spurious thing you see in a diff
between branches, and one less thing to merge conflict on.
Sorry for the late reply, but I must have missed one thing: where do
we store these? Now, I'm not arguing for having them in .spec (in fact,
I agree with you that they don't belong there), but where do we put
them?
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Dimi.