On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:12:15PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > A lot of packages include a spec.in file which is then passed through sed > > to install the version number in the spec file before a tarball is > > generated. Eliminating this extra step would make it easier for upstreams > > to provide RPM support by eliminating this extra step. > > Yes; but you still have the rpm revision number. I am arguing for its > removal entirely. That's one less spurious thing you see in a diff > between branches, and one less thing to merge conflict on. Sorry for the late reply, but I must have missed one thing: where do we store these? Now, I'm not arguing for having them in .spec (in fact, I agree with you that they don't belong there), but where do we put them? -- Dimi.
