Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Richard Bos <ml@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Op Wednesday 18 April 2007 20:10:05 schreef Andreas Jaeger:
>> * log entries in .changes file
>>
>>   Just a simple "Update to version x.y" is not valid in the packages
>>   changelog but happens far too often.  
>>  
>>   Goal: present the changes done to packages to users in a good way and
>>   use that for e.g. Release Notes.
>
> I can't be in the meeting tomorrow:
> - How to differentiate between updates to the spec file and the 
> package/project?  Or is this not important for the end user?  As an example, 
> just recently I did an mass update to the gnome related project (due to the 
> prefix change).  At the end this is not important to the end user, but for 
> other packagers it is!
> However, at the same time I splitted the package into language dependend parts 
> and that's important for the end user.
>
> Should there perhaps be 2 changelogs?  A project changelog and a spec file 
> changelog?
>
> I must admit I'm on side that a package version is sufficient to mention in 
> the spec file, as that all there is that changed.  But now that the changelog 
> is presented on the web it is indeed interesting to provide the project 
> changelog for the end user.  But in this case it might be sufficient to 
> provide a link to the (official/native) project changelog that is most likely 
> on the web in the rpm changelog...

Yes, well analyzed - these are the challenges and questions,

Andreas
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