Packaging Committee Meeting Summary (2010-02-03)

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 22:14:42 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:55:25PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 03 février 2010 à 13:28 -0800, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 22:19 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > A side-effect, is that spec parsers that read the file in a buildroot
> > > which is missing the package providing the macro, will sometimes think
> > > the macro call is part of the subpackage %summary. This is
> > > unfortunate,
> > > but I don't see how to avoid it without making another part of the
> > > spec
> > > harder for us. 
> > 
> > So long as it doesn't disrupt what is viewed as the summary from the
> > srpm stored in Koji, I think you'll be fine.
> 
> Unfortunately, I dimly remember seing the macro call appear in the past
> in the summary shown in packagedb or koji (don't remember the package
> name, and it may not occur with new koji/packagedb versions).
>
Easy to check, what's a package that does this macro directly after Summary:
or %description?

-Toshio
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