Heads up: rpm 4.11 alpha coming soon to rawhide near you

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Thursday, November 15, 2012 06:20 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 11:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:28:49AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>> For further details see the draft release notes at
>>> http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.11.0
>>
>> Should we start changing
>>
>> %doc README COPYING
>>
>> to
>>
>> %doc README
>> %license COPYING
>>
>> ?
>
> Eventually yes, although that'd be up to FPC I guess.
>
> Not yet however: while the produced packages are compatible with all
> older rpm versions, the spec is not. As long as there's a chance we
> might (temporarily) have to revert back to 4.10, you dont want to
> introduce spec-level changes that would cause build-failures on the
> older version.

Maybe redhat-rpm-config could define the %license macro to the same as 
%doc on Fedora<19 ?


-- 
Mathieu