On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
I thought that it was an RPM bug, but it's really a package bug, but it's really really something that RPM should handle, but does not, so it should really be an RPM bug.
It's definitely an RPM bug, just one that is really, really hard to fix. (IIRC it's due to a limitation in cpio, so fixing it would require changing the format files in RPMs are used to something else, which is...quite the undertaking.)
Working around it with %pretrans hackery is much, much easier, so thus it's also a packaging bug if people want it fixed this decade. ;-)
-T.C.