Upstream: Never Old Suse spec files have a pseudo release string which uses characters newer versions of rpmbuild don't like. Filter them out to make rpmbuild happy again. Packages in openSUSE 11.4 and later no longer need this. --- quilt/setup.in | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/quilt/setup.in +++ b/quilt/setup.in @@ -213,6 +213,14 @@ inspect() ln -s $QUILT_DIR/scripts/inspect-wrapper $tmpdir/bin/unzip ln -s $QUILT_DIR/scripts/inspect-wrapper $tmpdir/bin/7z + # Older versions of Suse packages have a symbolic release number, and + # rpmbuild won't like that, so change it to something compliant. + if grep -q '^Release:.*[<>]' "$specdir/$specfile" + then + sed -e '/^Release:/s/[<>]//g' < "$specdir/$specfile" > $tmpdir/"$specfile" + specdir=$tmpdir + fi + # Redirect file descriptors # 5 is used in verbose mode, 4 in non-verbose mode, and 2 for both (real errors) if [ -n "$verbose" ]