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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] SPEC files

From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:16:27 -0700
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Anders Broman
<anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dario Lombardo
> Sent: den 24 april 2018 12:06
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] SPEC files
>
>>Hi
>
>>What is the difference between packaging/rpm/wireshark.spec.in and
>> packaging/rpm/SPECS/wireshark.spec.in? During my last patches I updated the
>> former, but now I realized that there is also the latter.
>
> I think packaging/rpm/SPECS/wireshark.spec.in was the file used by autotools
> and  packaging/rpm/wireshark.spec.in is the ”new” file used by CMake the
> former can probably be deleted now.

Hmmm, that is weird. Normally, a SPEC file goes in the SPECS
directory. Can we relocate them? (It is not mandatory, just a
convention.)

Do the tools generate the SPEC file in the correct place?

Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)