[Mageia-dev] unpackaged files lurking in the weeds

[D.Morgan]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> '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).

of course this was friendly, this "always" is :)