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RPM: prereq is deprecated

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#417 opened on Nov 24, 2014

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Description

When I define prerequisites in an RPM build using the rpmPrerequisites key, I get warnings that "prereq is deprecated".

See: Scriptlet Dependencies documentation on rpm.org.

Because of a caveat documented in the link above, changing the meaning of rpmPrerequisites is a bad idea, so there should probably be some new key that supports modeling the scopes of RPM dependencies.

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Research direction
Examine the current rpmPrerequisites implementation in sbt native packager, understand the deprecated 'prereq' usage, and research RPM Scriptlet Dependencies to propose a new key with proper scope ('requires', 'recommends', etc.). Ensure backward compatibility is maintained.
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scala
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backenddevops
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ScalasbtRPM packaging basics
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