On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 05:55 -0400, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
> Many people do that and find it convenient, but I don't see how
> maintaining the same SPEC file for different distros is less of a
> maintenance burden
> than having a different SPEC for each distro/branch you want to
> support.

It makes it much easier to quickly make a change across all branches;
you just make the change on master and merge it to all other branches.
If each branch diverges from the others you have to cherry pick, and
often the cherry pick will not work cleanly (due to the changelog and
EVR differing, if nothing else) and you'll have to reconcile it. Giant
pain in the ass.

> And clearly, Fedora has diverged too much from any RHEL/epel
> buildroots currently, so keeping the same SPEC is even harder,

I do it for quite a lot of packages and haven't really had much trouble
at all.
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