On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Christian Daudt <cs...@daudt.org> wrote:
> Where are these guidelines that all other distros comply with and > Meego is deliberately not complying with? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines %changelog is needed. Although I just noticed that openSUSE doesn't allow %changelog either (probably). > I've always known > distro-agnostic rpms to mean using the least-common-denominator > between suse and redhat (which is also why very few people bother with > it - you loose distro specific benefits to make yourself distro > agnostic). And all of the incompatibilities I've seen stated here have > been justified, so they aren't there for the explicit purpose of > creating incompatibilities as the subject line in this thread implies. > It seems to me that there this is just about a disagreement over the > priority of having meego specific portions to the guidelines versus > forcing meego to the least-common-denominator of spec file creation. > None of the other distros in the past have stopped evolving their own > rpm usage for the sake of being cross-distro compatible (or not > breaking what little compatibility there is). True, but see these examples: Release: 1%{?dist} That's perfectly fine on Fedora, and openSUSE, but not on MeeGo. OBS replaces the Release field anyway: ----------------------------------------------------------------- I have the following modifications for dsp-tools.spec: 3c3 < Release: 1%{?dist} --- > Release: 3.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- So whatever the spec file has in the Release field should be irrelevant. But no, packages are rejected if you add a %{dist} tag. So how is being cross-distro compatible hurting MeeGo's evolution in this case? Also, changelog2spec is used by OBS to convert a %changelog section into a .changes file. So why are packages being rejected if they have %changelog instead of .changes, event thought the .changes file would be *exactly* the same that changelog2spec generates? What are these elevated features being lost? -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
