Rebuilds needed for Fedora 8

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Wed Aug 22 06:03:14 UTC 2007


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:40:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> IMO, the current convention of using x in %changelog entries instead of
> x%{?dist} is a mistake.

Using %dist in the %changelog alters history when the package is
rebuilt with a changed %dist value. The changelog of the built rpms
would have the expanded dist value put everywhere, overwriting old
values.

In general, macros in %changelog are bad.




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