Lennart Poettering <mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> writes:
But then we'd introduce two macros now, for two old distros, that
make
no sense on the next distros anymore but we could never get rid of them
anymore, because we'd break the old packages...
So what? It's not like the carrying cost of redundant macros is
anything significant. Meanwhile, by refusing to do this you are
inconveniencing a lot of package maintainers for whom the costs
of having different specfiles in different branches *are* significant.
regards, tom lane