On 05. 05. 21 10:15, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On 4/29/21 3:49 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 29. 04. 21 14:23, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On 4/29/21 11:58 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 26. 04. 21 12:36, Panu Matilainen wrote:
It's spring, it's raining sleet where I live, and it's also the season for
new rpm in rawhide. As per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.17.
The changes to the macro subsystem internals have been quite large, and
while it's supposed to be backwards compatible with changes this big it'd
be foolish not to expect some amount of the unexpected. So please pay
attention, and don't be shy about filing bugs.
Another regression found:
Convenient public macro %apply_patch removed without warning
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954999
An intentional change does not classify as a regression in my books.
It is a matter of perspective: A sudden unannounced breakage of something that
worked and appeared as part of the API classifies as regression in my books :)
The macro always was just an internal helper and intentionally entirely
undocumented, just mistakenly lacking the preceding undrescores (but then
neither of those ever stopped people from using "stuff").
It is documented in the macros file (very briefly), like all the other related
macros.
We can make the change more visible, and we can consider temporary patches in
Fedora, but %apply_patch is not an interface we want to support.
Let's deprecate it maybe in that case?
If it was something that is used by dozens of packages, we wouldn't be here in
the first place. As it is, it's exactly 10 packages in Fedora, most of which are
different versions of Python. So going through a deprecation process seems over
the top.
I understand that point of view, but maybe deprecating stuff isn't that complex?
I've tried to do it in https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1668
What is the supported alternative?
%autopatch -m <num> -M <num>
It's a bit silly of course but it IS supported, and easily wrapped in a local
helper as well.
I've tried to add an explicit -n option to %autopatch in the PR linked above to
make it less silly.
What do you think?
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