On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
> What you're after is to be able to use .spec files from Fedora and/or openSUSE
> in MeeGo. Nothing wrong with that -- in fact, that's a worthy goal.
>
> But your argument, as I understood it, was based on the fact of there being a
> mythical cross-distro .spec that would work in all the major RPM-based distros
> and therefore MeeGo should adhere to it.
No. I maintain some packages (not in RPM, more like in upstream)
context, and I would like to have a spec file that is
*distro-agnostic*. If the same spec file works on Fedora, openSUSE,
and MeeGo, that's great, it doesn't need to work on Mandriva (I would
consider that Mandriva's fault). And it would be even better if the
spec file also compiles with packaging guidelines, but that seems
impossible.
Anyway, I think it's sensible to remove the %changelog section, and
let every distro keep history in whatever way they think it's best.
But I till think Release: 1%{?dist} should be allowed, as the only
thing needed to make it MeeGo compatible is that OBS strips the dist
tag, which is trivial. I'm not even sure if the '1' would be used at
all as it currently seems to replace the whole thing for my packages.
But whatever, I don't think anybody cares.
--
Felipe Contreras
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