Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx> said:
Adding syntax to *.spec creates instant legacy problems building with older
versions of rpm.
When was %__perl_requires added to RPM?
rpm-4.2.
If the spec file language is now frozen for all time, why bother
breaking old spec files (things like Copyright: vs. License:)?
I did not say "frozen", I said that NoRequires: adds instant legacy issues building
packages with older versions of rpm.
Copyright: vs. License: change happened years and years ago, and still comes
up as an issue every 6 months or so *even though the two tags have been synonyms* since implementation.
It was time to clarify and simplify the issue imho.
Instead of a standardized solution with RPM, we have over 2 dozen
packages in FC that have their own ad-hoc (and in a bunch of cases
apparently incorrect) solution.
So fix the packages rather than honking %_use_internal_dependency_generator 0 as a (wrong!) solution.
73 de Jeff
