On 21 December 2015 at 14:05, Stephen Gallagher sgallagh@redhat.com wrote:
Richard, is there any way we can carry metadata like this outside of the actual SRPM when maintainers are unwilling to accept the metadata in their package?
Unfortunately in the case of upstream being unhelpful, it does have to be in the srpm, either in the .spec file itself (e.g. using <<EOF) or as a referenced source and checked into git. I did try using an external file to collect this a few releases ago, but the package names (or subpackage names) very quickly went out of sync with the extensions and it became really hard to maintain good quality release-specific shared data. I really think the best place is upstream, with downstream in Fedora used where required.
Richard