Are you already familiar with the basic concepts of the specfile library? Then welcome to a collection of some slightly more advanced topics that you could find useful. If you're not that familiar and would like to start with something easier, you can take a look at Introduction to specfile library.
Have you ever wanted to make changes in an RPM spec file programmatically? specfile library has been created for that very purpose. It is a pure Python library that allows you to conveniently edit different parts of a spec file while doing its best to keep the resulting changeset minimal (no unnecessary whitespace changes etc.).
We have recently made some fixes to the process of handling the Release field regarding the %autorelease macro, so let's take that opportunity to explain how it works.
