Honestly, this is kinda arrogant reply. Why deem what is appropriate based
on what Fedora does? It seems that Fedora allows poor pkging if you have to
fix explicit suffixes with "*".

What happened to have it your own way?


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote:

> No interest because already there are huge amounts
> of breakage making *.spec files tied to per-distro choices
> of what compressor to invoke.
>
> I have to fix issues like this in nearly every Fedora package I look
> at, to replace explicit suffixes with a glob in %files manifests.
>
> Maintain outside of rpm as you wish: what compression is chosen
> by various/sundry distros isn't a solvable problem imho.
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
> On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>
> > This patch adds support for compressing man & info pages with xz or lzma
> compression.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Per Øyvind
> > <rpm-5.4.10-update-and-use-brp-compress.patch>
>
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