On Dec 12, 2013, at 9:15 AM, "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This was a topic brought up by Tomas Kukosa some years ago: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200809/msg00081.html
The only objection I saw was Jeff Morriss's
> I think the point of RPM packaging is that everything is self-contained in:
>
> 1) the source tarball
> 2) (and) the RPM spec file
>
> so what you're asking actually goes against how RPM is intended to be used.
but, even at the time Tomas asked that, it appears we were generating wireshark.spec from wireshark.spec.in, so I'm not sure why setting more things in the generated wireshark.spec than we were already setting would be a Bad Thing.