On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:27:42AM +0100, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
I'll note that those libs are already in Fedora, but they need a new maintainer. Who should probably work with you and other distributions to clean up the spec files. We have some recent changes guidelines (no need for %clean section, use of %global instead of %define for example) and I am not sure if other rpm distros do the same at this time. It would be nice to have the same spec in all distributions though :-)
Some of these changes in require a very recent rpm and are not backward compatible (and not compatible to EL5, for example). Also there are some specific macros, scriptlets, and requirements for Fedora that may not be relevant for upstream spec files. In general, upstream spec file have more stringent requirements on compatibility among rpm based platforms and less requirements of integration.