rocky/rpms — comment on commit 84ad492450de5d34a89356189ea0c75884966270
File: specs/bashdb/bashdb.spec line 12
By rocky:

The situation with _bashdb_ is a very different from _remake_. In short, _bashdb_ is not an independent program like _remake_ is.

Except for the very first versions of _bashdb_ where I needed a patched _bash_ version 2.05b, the debugger has been able to work totally outside of _bash_. Furthermore later releases use features of _bash_ that weren't in earlier release. (In some cases it uses feature requested to make it _possible_ to write a debugger or do better debugging).

So there is no hope of the latest release, which needs at least _bash_ 4.1, to be able work _bash_ 3.2.

I had been meaning to ask about how to handle writing a spec for RHEL5. The way I'd prefer to do it is as a "RHEL5" branch in _git_. I'd prefer _not_ to try to have one _spec_ file that has tests everywhere in it to separate the differences. Rather I think of the two specs as independent and in the unlikely case that a change in one needs to be applied both places, _git_ can accommodate that rather nicely.