[meego-packaging] MeeGo and compatibility with other distros

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 7/1/2010 10:26 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I have .spec file that works fine for Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, and
> MeeGo... isn't that a good thing?
>
> Ok, I don't know about OpenSUSE, but I'm familiar with Fedora
> guidelines, and from what I can see they are not that different from
> MeeGo's.
>
> I only see a few differences:
>
>   1) Release: 1%{?dist}
>   2) %changelog
>
> OBS seems to be happy having these... So I guess it should be ok for
> MeeGo, right?
>
>    

we have sometimes conventions that are ahead of where the others are 
(like requiring the use of pkconfig() BuildRequires).
We really really do not want %{?dist} ...

what's your objective? if you have a simple-to-package piece of 
software, please use spectacle to create your meego spec.