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+ <B>Thomas Spuhler</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?">thomas at btspuhler.com
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+ <I>Mon Jan 17 05:45:39 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Saturday, January 15, 2011 04:07:56 pm Anssi Hannula wrote:
+&gt;<i> Hi all!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to
+</I>&gt;<i> 201100 for the time being, or should we not have one at all?
+</I>I am for having it to remain compatible
+&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Not having it will cause any src.rpms that have any
+</I>&gt;<i> &quot;%if %mdkversion &lt; x&quot; to fail to build.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I'm strongly in favor of having it for compatibility reasons, so that
+</I>&gt;<i> most MDV src.rpms keep building on Mageia for the time being, including
+</I>&gt;<i> those provided by any 3rd party packagers.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Not having the macro will cause us to lose that compatibility for very
+</I>&gt;<i> little benefit, IMO. It could maybe be removed after several releases,
+</I>&gt;<i> but not before.
+</I>I think we should have compatibility as much as possible. This would make it
+much easier to use the same spec on both disti's. We don't need to create more
+work than really needed.
+&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should not
+</I>&gt;<i> have these macros at all.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> What do other people think?
+</I>
+--
+Thomas
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