[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Source RPMs should have ARCH set to src (Issue #2601)

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

Actually, srpm are *almost* arch-independent. I know of two issues: the ARCH tag, and BuildRequires. But Fedora packaging guidelines actually forbid archful BuildRequires (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_buildrequires_and_isa, "SRPMs need to be architecture independent"). It is true that sometimes we get slightly different BuildRequires on different architectures, but in fact nobody wants this, this is just an unfortunate side effect of how the srpm is constructed. What we *want* is srpms which are arch-independent and can be used to build the rpm on any other architecture. Is there some other dependency on the arch?

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