Is %autosetup another unwanted baby of Fedora?

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi,

it's quite new feature in rpmbuild:

http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Autosetup

I.e. since rpm-4.11.

Cheers,
Jindrich
On Jul 13, 2015 1:40 PM, "Marcin Juszkiewicz" <mjuszkiewicz at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I moved to Fedora after years of doing Debian packages I noticed that
> there is no such thing as patch management when it comes to Fedora
> packages. Everyone is using %patch macro with files of random patchlevel
> (some even use reverse patches).
>
> %autosetup was created to handle that but probably less than 5% of
> packages use it. Why?
>
> Is it because no one told that it exists? Or maybe because implementation
> has some issues which no one wants to fix? Or other (I exclude laziness of
> package maintainers)?
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