[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

Sun Jan 16 10:37:09 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
+> Hi all!
+>
+> Should we have a %mdkversion (and %mdkver/%mdvver) that is hardcoded to
+> 201100 for the time being, or should we not have one at all?
+>
+> Not having it will cause any src.rpms that have any
+> "%if %mdkversion < x" to fail to build.
+>
+> I'm strongly in favor of having it for compatibility reasons, so that
+> most MDV src.rpms keep building on Mageia for the time being, including
+> those provided by any 3rd party packagers.
+>
+> Not having the macro will cause us to lose that compatibility for very
+> little benefit, IMO. It could maybe be removed after several releases,
+> but not before.
+>
+> However, it seems blino disagreed with this, and he thinks we should not
+> have these macros at all.
+>
+> What do other people think?
+>
+> --
+> Anssi Hannula
+>
+
+hi,
+
+i agree with this but if we add one i would be in favor or adding
+later ( after the import, clean ) that allow us to remove unneded part
+of the specs like the lib part. And why not add this macro but after .
+