[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Discussion: spec tag order and side-effects (#1161)

[Florian Festi]

My 2cts: The current behaviour is right. I see not reason to make an exception - neither for `Source:` and `Patch:` nor for `Name:`. Yes, this may break a few packages. Those need to be fixed.

Overall the way of how macros are expanded could be made more clear in the documentation. There are a lot of things that are not immediately obvious - e.g. how build script templates from the macro files can be over-written in the spec. Nevertheless we should aim for an easy model with as little exceptions as possible. https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/93604e2c3b8ed8a2b1ac77c4c43856e68b395c49 does just that.

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