[Mageia-dev] Compatibility: %mdkversion macro?

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Saturday, January 15, 2011 04:07:56 pm Anssi Hannula 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?

There is also an %exclude in the file section that doesn't work on mageia

-- 
Thomas