Re: rust2rpm 18 available with new features, including rpmautospec support

[Rémi Lauzier]

Thanks for your work! That should help a lot.

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Le mardi 13 juillet 2021 à 08:10, Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com&gt; a écrit :

>  Hi everybody,
>   
>  The Rust SIG has recently worked on a few new features and fixes for
>   
>  rust2rpm, and they are now available with version 18 for fedora 34
> and
>   
>  rawhide.
>   
>  New features include:
>   
>  -   Add simple %license and %doc file auto-detection
>       
>      This should reduce the amount of busy-work for version updates.
>  -   Add optional support for rpmautospec (autorelease, autochangelog)
>       
>      rpmautospec is deployed and working fine, and rust2rpm 18 can
> now
>       
>      optionally generate compatible .spec files with the
> "--rpmautospec" /
>       
>      "-a" CLI flag.
>  -   Use changelog timestamp format without time and timezone on Fedora
>       
>      rust2rpm was the last (?) tool in Fedora which used the
> "new"
>       
>      changelog timestamp format that includes the time and timezone,
> which
>       
>      is not well supported by older RPM releases, and its use is
>       
>      discouraged by RPM upstream. Now rust2rpm uses the same format as
> all
>       
>      other tools again.
>       
>      With rpmautospec support and automatic detection of %license and
> %doc
>       
>      files, most version updates for Rust packages now should require
>       
>      either little or no manual .spec file editing.
>       
>      The rawhide update is already stable, and the update for Fedora
> 34 is
>       
>      in updates-testing since today:
>       
>      https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-0cd0c4ed88
>       
>      Please test and let us know if there are any problems, or if you
> like
>       
>      new busywork-reducing features :)
>       
>      Fabio
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