Package: rpm-common
Version: 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When debugging why %{python_version} no longer expanded in an alien package,
I discovered that in bullseye and up, the macros.* packages (and their
associated macros) seem entirely absent.
It seems like upstream RPM stopped including them between 4.14.2.1 and 4.15.0.
The alpha changelog [1] notes:
- Remove script language helper macros and associated scripts
And the commit [2] explicitly says:
yes this will break existing packages and force distros to deal
with the fallout, but we believe its for the best:
these macros are also best maintained by people closer to the languages
in question, as has been done with all the newer languages predating
perl and python. rpm-extras exists as the place for maintaining and
collaborating on such material.
- Rich
[1] - https://rpm.org/timeline.html
[2] -
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/ba85c95963f9b62f237c0442f6b5aca3e355fa83
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Debian Release: 11.1
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'stable'), (900, 'oldstable-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'),
(500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500,
'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
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Foreign Architectures: i386
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Versions of packages rpm-common depends on:
ii libaudit1 1:3.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-2
ii librpm9 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-3
ii librpmio9 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-3
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
rpm-common recommends no packages.
rpm-common suggests no packages.
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