Fabio Valentini wrote:
> Additionally, if-guarding every non-backwards compatible change will
> result in unmaintainable, brittle and broken .spec files pretty fast.
> Nobody should be expected to work through if-else-endif spaghetti (and I'm
> not even talking about automated tools here, which almost never will
> handle conditionals entirely correctly, and probably never can). And never
> mind that people don't actually remove conditionals for EOL fedora
> releases ...
I do, for most packages. At least when I need to work on the package anyway.
I wouldn't submit a build just for that.
Though for some packages, I get told to leave ancient conditionals in for
EPEL. (You can usually recognize them because the conditionals also include
%{?rhel}.)
Kevin Kofler
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