Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <domi...@greysector.net> writes: > On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 23:29, Dan Čermák wrote: >> clime <cl...@fedoraproject.org> writes: > [...] >> > But when you said "workaround", I was thinking that you actually saw >> > the correct solution because "workaround" is imho used usually when >> > someone can't or don't want to solve things the right way so he/she >> > takes a shortcut. So I was curious what you think is "the right way" >> > here. >> >> Imho the "right way" would be to integrate this into rpmbuild itself >> instead of adding another layer on top of it. > > +1. Maybe it's time to introduce RPM spec file format versioning > and say .spec files with e.g.: > > SPEC-Version: 2 > > should be pre-processed by rpmbuild first.
When we go down that route, we might even think about throwing out m4 altogether and using a different templating language. But that a very OT discussion and would rather belong to the rpm development mailinglist. Cheers, Dan
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