[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] should a spec file tell about --build-in-place? (Discussion #2198)

[Ludwig Nussel]

When sources of a package as well as the spec file are in git ([example](https://github.com/openSUSE/aaa_base/)), the `--build-in-place` option for `rpmbuild` is quite convenient to build the package directly from the checkout directory. How does one know whether a spec file is meant for in-place building though?  Esp when that someone is an automated build system calling `rpmbuild`?
Is it expected that the surrounding build system adds some extra metadata that tells it to use in-place building?
Should spec files have some tag that is understood by `rpmbuild` so it switches to in-place building automatically?

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