On Sat, 2021-11-13 at 10:28 -0800, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
On Sat, 2021-11-13 at 11:57 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
This has been discussed many many times. The packaging guidelines have been updated to say globs "SHOULD NOT" be used [1], and I think there is a broad agreement that this is a good thing. Unfortunately many packages still use this pattern.
I think we need a hero (or a small team of heroes) to
- download the all-specs.tar.xz file and grep for the any spec
files that have globs
We should probably have a link to that someplace very visible (e.g. in the packaging guidelines)?
I just realized I forgot to bookmark it, and I can't remember where to get it from now.
aha, https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz
Best regards,