Panu Matilainen wrote: > The draft release notes are at http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.0 1. This change: | Packages with no files can now omit the %files section and still have | packages generated. is going to make it a PITA to conditionalize the building of subpackages, and it's going to break several existing KDE specfiles very badly (and with no warning!): RPM will silently generate empty subpackages where none is wanted. More precisely, when we wanted to conditionalize or comment out the creation of a subpackage (e.g. in kde-l10n for languages which are currently not available), what we did so far was to %if out only the %files section for the subpackage, not %package or things like %post, and this would reliably omit the subpackage. Now we'll have to %if out ALL sections referring to the subpackage: %package to prevent the subpackage from being built, and all other sections referring to it because they'll error out if the %package is not there. 2. I presume this: | Unknown dependency qualifiers are now always treated as errors and abort | build also includes Requires(hint), or is that finally used now? The specfiles maintained or comaintained by Rex Dieter (and they're many!) have Requires(hint) in many places. If this is really an error now, then that change is breaking all of KDE and its dependencies and several other packages in Fedora. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
