Michael Schroeder wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:02:24PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
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.
So what? That's a local policy thing from Factory. Factory is not the build service.
The policy is that packages that get out to customers and have different version/release must have different changelogs, so that a custumer can see what has changed.
That's not the case though as automatic rebuilds don't leave a changelog entry. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org