[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

Mon Jun 18 00:18:13 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 17/06/12 20:10 did gyre and gimble:
+> D.Morgan wrote:
+>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
+>>> So, if we want to follow Colin's suggestion, we drop the patch.  The patch changes upstream behavior, and adds the extra usage of %exclude, 
+> which as Colin and I pointed out, you can just rm things in %install (or patch Makefiles) instead.
+>>
+>> WE DON'T USE ANY PATCH FOR THIS AND WE USE UPSTREAM %EXCLUDE BEHAVIOUR
+> 
+> No need to yell.  I was misled.  We just removed this patch, which made our rpm's behavior the same as rpm5's, but not rpm.org's.  Removing the 
+> patch matches us to that upstream.  Sorry for the noise :o(
+
+Don't worry about the caps, I think the next line (which wasn't quoted)
+made it clear that this was a friendly shout :)
+
+If there are issues that confuse people, it's worth mentioning it, so no
+need to apologise for the "noise" (I certainly don't consider it noise).
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
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