Closed #56.
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What error do you get? I just checked, installed _this_ branch and edited
[MMIX specfile](https://github.com/ascherer/mmix/blob/local/mmix.spec#L36)
accordingly.
```
debbuild -bp SPECS/mmix.spec
```
runs perfectly with `-S git`, `-S git_am`, `-S patch`, and `-S quilt`, but
**not** with `-S
@ascherer Eck, I didn't override the macro properly to test, that's why... It's
all good to me :+1:
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@ascherer It doesn't look like -S is supported anymore in `%autosetup`. Does
`%autosetup -S git` or something like that still work correctly?
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Invoking `%__scm_setup_$__scm` _without_ looking at option `-S` in the
specfile, but taking the current definition of `%__scm` into account, permits
dynamic selection of the SCM on the commandline
```
rpmbuild --define="__scm SCM"
```
Default SCM `patch` already has a convenient