Mario Blättermann:
I'm using Gedit for writing and viewing the spec files, which uses gtksourceview for syntax highlighting. Gedit doesn't recognize any macros without brackets and doesn't highlight them.
That must be a a bug. Regardless of Fedora's packaging guidelines, macros without brackets is legal purely syntactically.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656671
(I'm using emacs, and its SPEC mode works correctly in this case.)
either always in a certain spec file, or nowhere.
I assume everyone would agree that consistency should be a requirement. I will make it consistent in "mindless.spec". I just wanted to wait for this discussion to see in which direction I would change it.