QA process was Re: RPM submission procedure

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:29:25 -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:47, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:32:49 -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > 
> > > What I'm suggesting is that if every distro has entirely separate specs,
> > > you are tending torward these sorts of conflicts. But if the distros are
> > > less insistent that a spec is for their distro alone, then we have less
> > > tendency to diverge.
> > 
> > Fine. Get all distributors to agree on common package naming guidelines,
> > on a common set of RPM macros, on a common set of helper tools, etc. etc.
> 
> At this point, as you seem to feel, that is probably not feasible.
> 
> But is it not possible to handle this divergence in some way?
> 
> For instance, I can easily imagine making several specs from one spec.in
> via automake. But AFAIK RPM doesn't have a way to choose between
> "nagios-plugins.fedora.spec" and "nagios-plugins.mandrake.spec".
> 
> I don't see how the genie can be put back in the bottle. But I do wonder
> if we have a chance to stop the genie from getting bigger than
> necessary.

Why do you want to merge distribution-specific build scripts upstream?

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