[Fedora-packaging] [Proposal] Packaging guidelines/spec per version

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/14/2013 10:09 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 03/14/2013 10:46 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> Dne 13.3.2013 18:01, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a):
>>> On 03/13/2013 04:20 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>>>> Dne 13.3.2013 13:12, Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wouldn't it be possible to have packaging guidelines versioned by
>>>>> Fedora version? If this would be accompanied by the rule, that .spec
>>>>> files can't be shared as well (using some conditions), this would
>>>>> allow us to have much faster evolution of our packaging. I'll give you
>>>>> a few examples.
>>>>>
>>>>> = Tilde versioning
>>>>>
>>>>> It is available in RPM since 4.10 [1], i.e. Fedora 18. It is
>>>>> prohibited by guidelines [2].
>>>
>>> -1 Any changes to NEVR conventions are dangerous. They need to be
>>> supported by all rpm-related tools and all active versions of Fedora.
>>
>> Wrong, if the guidelines would be version specific, it would be obvious
>> that you can start using this functionality for F18. Yes, you can hit
>> issues if you try on F17, but it was never intended to work on older
>> releases, so that is not surprise.
>
> Just FWIW, the tilde support in rpm could trivially be backported to
> F17. Heck, it's already been backported and included in RHEL-6 (as of
> 6.4) just to clear the first roadblock from its use in Fedora.

How about yum, fedpkg, yumex, rpmdev* etc., <insert your custom script 
here>?

Openly said, I am actually opposed to allowing '~' in rpm at all, 
because its meaning is non-obvious.

Ralf