[Fedora-packaging] Re: Using %global instead of %define

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 21:46 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> We unanimously agreed to this, and we decided to take this even
> further to generally discourage use of %define in favour of %global. I
> created a proposal for the guidelines at
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/global_preferred_over_define
> 
> It also contains the Packaging/* pages that need editing, which I
> eye-ball-checked that they only contain trivial %defines.
> 
Can rpmlint detect a %define that should be a %global ?  (or could it be
extended to perform such a test?)  

It would be nice to be able to automatically detect such possibly
problematic cases.