Remove .spec files

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Tue Nov 8 08:33:18 CET 2011


On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Anybody against dropping the .spec files? Most rpm packages have their
> own (they must, because some files are simply broken). Previously Xfce
> shipped srpm's, however we don't do that anymore, so I suggest to drop
> the files.

Nope, I say drop 'em. We've shipped only tarballs for as long as I can
remember. I say there's no reason to keep them.

And package-maintainers are better at maintaining spec-files then we are ;-)

Stephan


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