[Fedora-packaging] Are brackets around macros required?

[Rex Dieter]

On 08/15/2011 12:02 PM, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> In a package review recently I was asked to put brackets around all
> macro usages.  That is, writing
>    %{name}.desktop
> rather than
>    %name.desktop

imho, using brackets is near-universally safer, but I doubt we need to 
mandate it.  If anyone's non-use of brackets ever does break anything, 
that's their responsibility to fix I suppose.

-- rex