Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (344 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 of May 2010, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:30:05AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > If the OBS storage only worked a little more like git, you would not
> > have to do things like these. Or, as the public puts it, authorship and
> > change information does not belong into tracked files, but into the
> > history log.
>
> Huh? OBS already has authorship and change information in the
> history log.

 Which is however rather poorly usable. Digging out things from the history 
can be hard or even impossible.

> > I don't deny software projects their occassional user-level
> > changelog.txt which has all irrelevant developer actions removed, but
> > OBS is pretty much for developers anyway. And right now, .changes looks
> > like a drop-in to counter for the suboptimal history tracking OBS has.
>
> Nonsense. The .changes (and thus rpm's %changelog) is intended for
> the end user that installs packages, not the developer. The information
> should be displayed in YaST/zypper, so the user can make an informed
> decision if he wants to install/update a package.

 Nonsense :). Updates for factory are rejected if they do not have a .changes 
entry, so we are required to add things like 'remove obsolete build 
requirement' or 'compile fix' to the changelog that users could not care less 
about. This is even documented somewhere in the wiki.

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 Lubos Lunak
 openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer
 l.lunak@xxxxxxx , l.lunak@xxxxxxx
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