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Bug 1873237

Summary: rpmdev-newspec create empty file
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Martin <namar66>
Component: rpmdevtoolsAssignee: Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 33CC: bugs.michael, carl, decathorpe, dennis, kevin, mhroncok, ngompa13, redhat-bugzilla, torsava, twoerner
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Fixed In Version: rpmdevtools-9.2-1.fc33 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2020-10-06 00:16:33 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Martin 2020-08-27 17:00:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
Creating news spec always end with empty file


[martin@localhost SPECS]$ LANG=C rpmdev-newspec somepackage
sed: -e expression #1, char 309: unknown command: `f'
somepackage.spec created; type minimal, rpm version >= 4.16.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpmdevtools-9.1-1.fc33.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpmdev-newspec somepackage
2.open somepackage.spec
3.file is empty

Actual results:
file is empty

Expected results:
creating base rpm spec section in spec file

Additional info:
Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2020-09-02 18:18:33 UTC 
Yes, this is kinda bad:

$ rpmdev-newspec -t python
sed: -e expression #1, char 285: unknown command: `f'
newpackage.spec created; type python, rpm version >= 4.16.

$ wc -l newpackage.spec 
0 newpackage.spec
Comment 2 Martin 2020-09-12 08:30:10 UTC 
Created attachment 1714634 [details]
workaround

line 296 - 300 are bogus
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-10-05 22:50:20 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-518278a39e has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-518278a39e
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-10-06 00:16:33 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-518278a39e has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.