Re: Needless use of %defattr (in 4464 packages)

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/29/2016 03:30 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:36:24PM +0100, Petr Šabata wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:34:55PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > perl-Affix-Infix2Postfix (steve, psabata)
> > perl-Algorithm-IncludeExclude (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Algorithm-Merge (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Authen-PAM (steve, psabata)
> > perl-Carp-Clan-Share (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Class-Container (steve, psabata)
> > perl-Class-DBI-Plugin-DeepAbstractSearch (iarnell, mmaslano, ppisar, psabata, jplesnik)
> > perl-Context-Preserve (iarnell, mmaslano, ppisar, psabata, jplesnik)
> > perl-Convert-ASCII-Armour (steve, psabata)
> > perl-Convert-Bencode (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Convert-Bencode_XS (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Crypt-CAST5_PP (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Crypt-DES_EDE3 (steve, psabata)
> > perl-Data-Denter (iarnell, mmaslano, ppisar, psabata, jplesnik)
> > perl-Data-FormValidator-Constraints-DateTime (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Data-Taxi (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-DateTime-Format-ICal (steve, xavierb, psabata)
> > perl-DateTime-Format-SQLite (iarnell, ppisar, psabata, mmaslano, jplesnik)
> > perl-DBIx-Class-TimeStamp (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Devel-Caller (steve, psabata)
> > perl-Devel-FastProf (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-Expect-Simple (iarnell, mmaslano, ppisar, psabata, jplesnik)
> > perl-File-ChangeNotify (psabata, ppisar, mmaslano, jplesnik)
> > perl-File-Pid (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-File-Read (iarnell, psabata)
> > perl-File-Type (steve, psabata)
> > perl-File-Type-WebImages (iarnell, psabata)
> >
> > Cleaned and modernized these.  More next week.
> > P
>
> Can you estimate how much time you spent on this?

Though I am not Petr, I can tell how much time I spent to change this 
for my perl-packages. Ca. 20-30 per day.

However this figure is misleading, because
- I used this occasion as an opportunity to clean up my specs an to get 
rid of rpm-anachronisms (many of my perl package had not been touched 
for years).
- I used this occasion as an opportunity to experiment with rpm.
- this was done as a side-job in parallel to other tasks.

Basically, wrt. perl-packages, I believe a more or less 
mechanical/scripted remover of "%defattr" would be possible, if that's 
what you're aiming at.

However, I do not see much reason in such kind of undertaking, because I 
don't see any reason why %defattr needs to away in the next couple of years.

Ralf
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