Re: Fedora 34 Change: Enable spec file preprocessing (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, at 2:05 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Enable_Spec_File_Preprocessing
> 
> 
> == Summary ==
> This change should enable an opt-in spec file preprocessor in Fedora
> infrastructure for the benefit of packagers. The preprocessor allows
> some very neat tricks that were impossible before, for example
> generate changelog and release automatically from git metadata or pack
> the entire dist-git repository into an rpm-source tarball (effectively
> allowing unpacked repos to live in DistGit).
> 

I'm skeptical. If it does pass, I'd insist on having the non-processed spec and any required supporting files in the SRPM.

Does this relate in any way to the magic done by rdopkg dist-git <-> source-git translation? Their approach seems very good to me, but might not exactly overlap here.

V/r,
James Cassell
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