undeprecating rubygem-{bunny,moneta,ohai}

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 08:42:13AM -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A note on specfile style: since we have a separate branch for each
> > target version, you don't need to use the above conditional. Instead, on
> > your el6 just use:
> >
> > Requires: ruby(abi) = 1.8
> >
> > and on F17+ us
> >
> > Requires: ruby(abi) = 1.9.1
> 
> Technically that's true, but it doesn't allow you to have a unified
> spec file for all branches of Fedora and EPEL. It's quite nice to be
> able to do fast-forward merges in Git, instead of having visible merge
> commits, or instead of manually cherry-pick changes.
> 
> It's up to the maintainer to decide of course. I've just found it's
> much easier to follow development on a package when the spec is
> unified like this. EPEL in particular hangs around for a very long
> time!

Honestly, I've not done that before. I inherited one package that had a
ton of conditionals that I found hard to follow. I ended up pulling them
out, but now wonder if maybe it couldn't have been simplified instead.

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
http://mcpierce.multiply.com/
"What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ruby-sig/attachments/20121102/970675c6/attachment.sig>