On Fri, Dec 6, 2024, at 5:57 AM, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> Hello fellow packagers,
>
> The %{version_no_tilde} macro is a "convenient" way of converting RPM
> version strings into "SemVer-ish" (or even Python-ish) version
> strings. It currently lives with the Rust macros.
>
> However, the macro is a bit weird, hard to use, and sometimes has
> "surprising" results. No Rust spec files that have been generated with
> recent versions of rust2rpm use it - and I plan to do a round of "spec
> refreshes with recent rust2rpm" to remove many of the remaining uses.
>
> I see that it is in use in some non-Rust packages by now. But sooner
> rather than later, no Rust packages will use this macro
What do Rust packages use now?
> So I think it would make sense to move it into a different package and
> / or to "fix" it for some weird behaviour.
It makes sense. Given semver is so widely adopted. Are there issues opened
for the weird behaviour?
Kanru
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