On Tue Jan 9, 2024 at 17:30 +0000, Maxwell G wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> RPM has deprecated the `%patchN` syntax in favor of `%patch -PN` where
> `N` is the patch number. See the RPM documentation for more information
> [1]. In current RPM versions, this syntax only emits a deprecation
> warning, but support for this syntax has been removed completely on the
> rpm master branch [2]. Around 100 packages maintained by the go-sig
> still use this syntax.
>
> Later this week/early next week, I will run this script [3] over the
> affected go-sig packages [4] to update them to the modern patch syntax.
> For example, the script will change:
>
> %patch0 -p1 -> %patch -P0 -p1
> %patch0005 -p2 -> %patch -P0005 -p2
>
> If anyone has any objections or would like to exclude a package, please
> let me know.
>
> ---Maxwell
>
> [1] https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/spec.html#patch-1
> [2] 
> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/afd352481bacea521ce5ba01e989866478278532
> [3] 
> https://git.sr.ht/~gotmax23/fedora-scripts/tree/main/item/new_patch_syntax.sh
> [4] 
> https://git.sr.ht/~gotmax23/fedora-scripts/tree/main/item/go-sig/new_patch_syntax/packages

This has been completed. Have a good weekend!


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