Is %autosetup another unwanted baby of Fedora?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 13/07/15 15:01, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:39:57PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz 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).
> > 
> > While not answering your question about %autosetup, I want to say this
> > bit isn't quite true.  Some packages use an external git repo for
> > patch management, and create the 'Patch...' lines semi-automatically.
> > (Similar to, but less weird than: https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit)
> > 
> > %autosetup only handles half of this use case.  TBH it handles the bit
> > that was already quite easy to do -- ie. invoking 'git am'.
> > 
> > Copying the patches from git and inserting the Patch lines is the hard
> > part, and it would be nice to have some standardized tooling for that,
> > instead of everyone's homebrew 'copy-patches.sh' script.
> 
> maybe pull `rdopkg update-patches` into `fedpkg` ?

Yup, something like that.

Is anyone maintaining fedpkg now?

Rich.

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