[Fedora-packaging] %define => %global change accepted

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Feb 22 20:18:44 UTC 2009


On Sunday 22 February 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> This is an FYI to Guidelines authors past and future that FESCo and the
> FPC approved the change to use %global instead of %define.  I don't know
> of anyplaces that should remain %define so I'm going to start changing
> everyplace on the wiki that uses %define to %global.  Someone stop me if
> they know of an exception to this.
>
> Also, Ville, we should change the spec templates in rpmdevtools to do
> this as well.  Would you like a bug report, patch, or you'll just take
> care of that?

I'll take care of it in git right now.  No objections to opening a Bugzilla 
bug for tracking purposes, go ahead if you like.




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