Mass changes to packaging

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/21/2012 01:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Lukas Nykryn wrote:
>> Sorry for this mess. After a discussion, we have decided, that the
>> best way would be to create bugs for every packages and then helping
>> creating patches for specfiles.
>
> Just to be clear, I had no problem at all with the bugs being filed,
> nor with the changes (which seem very sensible).  I just pointed out
> it would be better if you actually fixed the packages, or at least
> offered to do that for packagers.

One thing to be careful of is compatibility with prior releases, and 
especially EPEL.  I maintain a lot of package for EPEL and as much as possible 
I maintain the same spec on all branchs.  Changes going into the master branch 
of my packages that I couldn't just merge into prior releases would be a 
problem for me.

That caveat aside, I'm always happy to have help :)


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