[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:56:13 -0400
Bill Nottingham <notting at splat.cc> wrote:

> Tom Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > As part of the ongoing effort to update the guidelines for an
> > eventual change from python2 to python3 as the default python we're
> > promoting use of %{python2}, %{python2_sitelib}, and
> > %{python2_sitearch} instead of the unversioned %{python},
> > %{python_sitelib}, and %{python_sitearch} macros. These macros are
> > not available for EPEL5 and EPEL6. We've updated the Python
> > Guidelines to mention conditionally defining those macros for EPEL5
> > and EPEL6 builds.
> 
> Given that EPEL controls epel-release, and epel-release is in
> @buildsys-build, does it make sense to put macros like this in
> epel-release itself for build uniformity?

It could. We already have some ghc rpm macros in there... 

kevin
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