[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Make %setup defaults smarter (#371)

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Thu Dec 14 06:55:54 UTC 2017


> Surely you do not mean that literally, where the directory name has, say, the suffix ".tar.gz"
> or ".zip" appended in the directory name.

Yes, sure, that was shorthand, the  issue text is more explicit

> Also note that SourceN: is used for content that may not be an archive at all.

Then those SourceNs won't need an ArchiveN, I propose an Optional ArchiveN which makes only sense for source archives (which are still the main SourceN kind)

> No 'quirks' at all ... I have built my tools with the rpm and rpmbuild man pages open, and
> consulting:

Yes, right. Then you won't have any problem finding hundreds of packages that follow your pattern in the thousands Fedora or Suse packages ? More numerous than the thousands that use GitHub (for example) as SourceN ?

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