[Mageia-dev] Some news regarding rpm packaging rules : %clean section

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 13 June 2011 11:52, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Note to other packagers: Please don't go cleaning (no pun intended) spec
> files without thinking. As with all changes to rpm specs (such as the
> infamous buildroot change of '09 :D) making the specs clean for one
> distro version makes it harder/impossible to backport.

Note that I want to do such cleaning right now but:
Err, all mageia distros (both stable 1 & cauldron) are based on rpm-4.8.1
so we jus canNOT backport to sg using an older rpm...