rust2rpm 18 available with new features, including rpmautospec support

[Fabio Valentini]

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

[Rémi Lauzier]

Thanks for your work! That should help a lot.

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

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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