[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] forbid #%define

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008, 11:25:02 +0200, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> [...]
> Sorry for justr barging in on the thread, I'm writing from my gmail account
> now and didn't get the chance to read the thread.
> 
> But I find it silly to add extra complexity to comment out macros with a
> '#', when they can already be commented out with an extra '%' which is well
> documented.
> 
> So for what gain would it be? Near zero for anyone except for novice
> packagers, while giving headaches for people relying on old behaviour..

Well, I don't think I'm a novice packager, but to me it looked much
more orthogonal if the '#' were treated as a general comment character
independent of such "special" rules...

> My 2 cents..

Cheers.

l8er
manfred