Mass rebuild for F13?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Dec 21 13:57:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 07:38 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:03:13AM -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> >> It would be nice if you folks add these little explanations as
> >> comments next to the patches of the gcc SPEC file. (this is also a
> >> packaging requirement [1]).
> >
> > 1) gcc-4.4-RH has its own svn branch in upstream repository, so the
> >   src.rpm contains only very few patches, most of the changes are
> >   simply committed to the svn branch.  svn commit logs contain
> >   all relevant info.
> > 2) the patches (~ 20) that are left have comments in their bodies,
> >   rather than in the spec file, which is much more maintainable.
> >
> 
> Yeah, those comments in the patches are quite informative, like "libtool sucks".
> 
> Seriously, this "comment about the patch in the specfile" is a
> packaging requirement, not a personal request.

Keeping comments in patches is perfectly fine; if the packaging
guidelines don't reflect that, they ought to be clarified.




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