On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:46 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/08/2021 19:39, Richard Shaw wrote:
> It's quite common to need to do some minor manipulation in a spec file
> and you decide to use sed instead of patching so you don't have to
> update it every release.
Patching is always painful. You need to rebase your patches on every
upstream release.
I always use sed for trivial fixes.
I agree, but the real question is, how do you determine when it's no longer necessary?
Thanks,
Richard
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