[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Dynamic Spec generation (#1485)

[Florian Festi]

> Is there a reason we can't just push it back into `rpmbuild` itself directly? Like perhaps by exposing something via Lua that lets you programmatically define binary packages?

Yes, we could. I have thinking about this quite a lot. But this is much more complicated and harder to use. Generating a piece of spec file is easy and can be done from any programming language. This is a huge benefit if you want to do language specific solutions as you have easy access to all the domain specific tooling.

But there are a few use cases that will benefit from direct access to the rpmbuild internals. Debuginfo being one of them. Otoh I dislike the fact that the internal state of rpmbuild getting altered without an artefact that documents that. Yes, this already is the case for debuginfo packages. But I would rather have less of that than more.

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