Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> writes:
On 10/18/2009 05:09 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> IMO, * should be used so that if/when we change to bzip2 or xz or
> some other compression method you won't have to update spec files.
Agreed. *.specs which use *.gz will break, should Fedora switch to a
different compression.
... other distros did so many years, ago.
I remember being told that the specfile should be agnostic as to whether
manpage compression is used at all, let alone what kind it is.
"*" accomplishes that (and ".*" doesn't, so it's still easy to
get it
wrong). If this isn't spelled out in the guidelines, it probably should
be, because sooner or later a specfile that uses ".gz" is going to
break.
regards, tom lane