Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > When I moved to Fedora after years of doing Debian packages I noticed > that there is no such thing as patch management when it comes to > Fedora packages. Everyone is using %patch macro with files of random > patchlevel (some even use reverse patches). > > %autosetup was created to handle that but probably less than 5% of > packages use it. Why?
autosetup is still fairly new. It's been only half a year since it was announced that a mention had been added to the Packaging Guidelines, which was probably when I first heard of it. Could it be that maintainers don't see a pressing need to change their working packages just for the sake of introducing autosetup, but have slowly begun using it when they're overhauling the spec and patches anyway? Björn Persson
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