Re: Packages which needlessly use %defattr

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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:36:08AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> I haven't written any scripts which modify specfiles, only scripts which
> find issues.  And in any case:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_package_changes#Automated_cleanup
> 
> Besides... this is git.  And rawhide.  If I broke something seriously
> then I or any maintainer or any provenpackager can revert the commit.
> 
> Really, if we just waited until every spec maintainer had a chance to
> ack every script that's used to modify packages, there would be no point
> in ever trying to do automated cleanup.  Sorry, but my work with Fedora
> will be aimed towards progress, not sitting around not changing anything
> for fear of potentially breaking something.
> 
> The removals of %defattr that I did a few hours ago were done by hand,
> not scripted.  I don't doubt that there's a reasonable chance that I
> could have screwed up one or two out of nearly 2700 packages.  That's
> life.

thank you Jason for doing this. IMHO we need to embrace this approach.
As you write, it is the path for progress and I hope we have more of
these automatic cleanups to reduce the need for manual interventions as
much as possible.

Kind regards
Till
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