On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 10:58:40PM -0600, Jason Tibbitts via packaging wrote: > >>>>> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> writes: > > > Let's take a step back. Does it make sense to implement complicated > > and fragile scriptlets in packages? > > No, of course not. > > > Can we *please* get rid of this footgun that has been a continous > > source of problems? > > The mantra on the packaging committee is that we work with the RPM we > have, not the RPM we wish we had. This has been an issue in RPM since > before Fedora existed and it's still there, so we have little choice but > to adapt. Even if RPM does start handling this, the need to handle > older releases won't go away for quite some time.
I think that mantra is outdated ;) For example, the recent story with sysusers is an example where close cooperation between rpm and the rest of the distro let's us figure out new solutions to old problems. So I think it's worth at least talking about ideas. For compat with older releases, we'd need to original solution… +1 for the macro as the intermediate form. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
