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

[Panu Matilainen]

On 11/15/2012 12:21 PM, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> 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 ?

Unfortunately that wont work: %license is clobbered by License: tag in 
specs. It could be aliased to %doc with a tiny patch to librpmbuild, but 
patching is needed.

	- Panu -