Re: RPM macros - case insensitive since Fedora 27 (maybe Fedora 26)

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W dniu 24.05.2017 o 17:32, Zdenek Dohnal pisze:
> Hi,
> 
> I was doing rebase for gutenprint pre-release in recent rawhide (fc27)
> and I couldn't build it because I had %VERSION macro defined by myself
> and it got rewritten by default macro %version. That indicates rpm
> macros have been case insensitive since fc27 (colleague told me the same
> situation is in fc26 too, but I encountered it in fc27).
> 
> Would anyone mind explaining why such change was introduced for RPM
> macros, please? IMHO I do not think it is good idea, because it shrinks
> group of useful names for packager defined RPM macros.

I do wonder why such names was used at all? %gp_version is just 3
characters longer, looks local to spec file and do not conflict.
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