On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:46 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 11/08/2021 19:39, Richard Shaw wrote: > > It's quite common to need to do some minor manipulation in a spec file > > and you decide to use sed instead of patching so you don't have to > > update it every release. > > Patching is always painful. You need to rebase your patches on every > upstream release. > > I always use sed for trivial fixes. > I agree, but the real question is, how do you determine when it's no longer necessary? Thanks, Richard
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