On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:02 PM Michael J Gruber <m...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> While it is annoying to spell out each file it does catch package changes
> which might go unnoticed otherwise. In particular, we've had a few
> unannounced soname changes and such lately. [Disclaimer: I have not checked
> whether the maintainer ignored the build failure for an explicit soname or
> got trapped by a wildcard in these cases.]
>

But the packaging guidelines already mentioned not globbing the soname part
of the files, so this change makes no difference to that use case.
Extending the no-globbing rule to other directories like datadir seems very
excessive. Why should we have to list all files a package wants to ship as
its data?

-Ian


>
> We could probably live better with wildcards if proper rpmdiff-tools were
> part of the workflow and of gating or such. Those would be the right tool
> for the job.
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