Florian Festi wrote:
> We have an even easier solution for you: You can just run the script at
> [3] with -n on your own spec files to get them changed to the %patch N
> variant. If you do that right now they will not break nor will they be
> touched during the mass change.
>
> As I said the %patch -PN syntax is the one with the best compatibility -
> reaching back into the dark ages. I am not advocating for people to use
> it. Anyone is free and encouraged to move to something more modern -
> before or after the change. We are using this variant so spec files
> continue to work on older distributions and the chance of breakage is
> minimized. This way packagers that don't care don't have to.
What I do not understand is why RPM is discontinuing the most commonly used
syntax and breaking hundreds of specfiles. This also leaves us with only the
choice between a backwards-incompatible syntax (added only in RPM 4.18) and
an ugly and redundantly verbose syntax (the -P syntax). And even the modern
syntax is 1 character (space) longer for every patch. The shortest syntax
was the one being dropped.
Kevin Kofler
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