[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 198881] Review Request: perl-POE-Filter-IRCD

[Paul Howarth]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>> "RD" == Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> writes:
>>
>> RD> +%ifnarch noarch
>> ...
>> RD> +%endif
>>
>> The find call in there is completely harmless but unnecessary; the
>> angry comments I've received are (partially) about allowing the
>> unnecessary line to persist.  Somehow I don't think wrapping it in
>> %ifnarch is going to help, since that adds two additional unnecessary
>> lines.
> 
> OK.  (:  You might want to remind the angry brow-beaters that the sky is 
> falling too.

Is it just me or shouldn't packagers actually have a reasonable 
understanding of what's in their spec files? Having a reasonable 
understanding of a perl module spec file for instance, would include 
knowing what each thing did and hence what wasn't needed.

Paul.