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Still mark SRPMS with RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE

Registered by Jeff Johnson on 2010-09-06

     Change: backward-compat-rpmtag-sourcepackage
     Purpose: Still mark SRPMS with RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE
     Reason: For backward compatibility with RPM < 4.4.6 for all the
                     Mandriva releases which are using RPM 4. RPM 5 will still
                     mark SRPMS with the RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE. This especially
                     allows to switch between RPM 4 and 5 on Mandriva. Without
                     this the mixture would involve manual "rpm2cpio" plus the
                     "rpm -bb" operation.

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Status:: Complete

Approver:: Jeff Johnson

Priority:: Medium

Drafter:: None

Direction:: Needs approval

Assignee:: None

Definition:: Obsolete

Series goal:: Accepted for 5.4

Implementation:: Needs Code Review

Milestone target:: None

Started by: Jeff Johnson on 2012-01-13

Completed by: Jeff Johnson on 2012-01-13

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There's little enough reason to retrofit RPMTAG_SOURCEPACKAGE
without having multiple per-vendor versions of a patch that is SUPPOSED
to address "legacy compatibility". You cannot have vendor specific
versions of a patch that is needed solely for "legacy compatibility"
meaningfully imho.

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