[openssl-dev] Packager material in our source...

Joey Yandle xoloki at gmail.com
Wed May 11 08:09:53 UTC 2016


Though I don't use RedHat or it's derivatives, it's packaging file is at 
least mercifully self-contained.  Also, spec files can be used to 
generate packaging files for other formats.

I'd advocate for leaving it in... just not very forcefully.

On 5/11/2016 12:09 AM, Richard Levitte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been wondering, why do we have an openssl.spec in the OpenSSL
> source?  Why would we have packager material in there at all, and if
> we should have such things, why only for RPMs, why not Debian, why not
> stuff to build Windows .msis, why not stuff to build PCSI files (for
> VMS)?
>
> This is to say, I'm going to make a move to remove openssl.spec from
> our source, and thought a fair warning was waranted.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>


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