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--- Comment #8 from Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de 2008-12-01 10:51:20 EDT --- (In reply to comment #7)
Documentation is for humans to read. If a script is truly just documentation then packaging it as executable is just as much a defect as packaging man pages with executable bits set.
Documentation containing non-executeable scripts are crippled docs.
But that's well into the land of "spec and packaging hygiene and policies" department which I've zero interest in arguing over, and little to do with the actual issue here.
Note that the patch does not change
any type definitions, and by making the logic for limit macros match that for the corresponding type definitions more closely it makes the header much easier to check by inspection than it presently is.
You have, because rpm is your job and because it's your rpm which * is producing broken results. * forces users to cripple their packages.