Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (564 mails)

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On 07.12.2011 10:46, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > On 07.12.2011 08:22, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > > > I would have been in favour of a different approach in that case:
> > > > - announce clearly the new policy for license tags (I only read
> > > > some references but nothing dedicated)
> > > > - rpmlint checks (even fatal would be fine for Factory)
> > > > - let maintainers fix it
> > > > - before 12.2 release do a bulk change for packages not already
> > > > fixed
> > >
> > > The fatal rpmlint check would have hit 99.9% of all packages and
> > > why let maintainers fix something a script can fix in half an
> > > hour?
> >
> > Why the script doesn't add a changelog entry at least?
>
> Because this would have created way more conflicts than a one line
> change.

OP's point was that he would like to see a conflict to not accidentally 
revert something without even noting it.

> And the license syntax change is hardly interesting for the user.

Isn't the changlog made for packagers as well?
I've got several trivial submit requests declined because of missing 
changelog. Your argument could be used to satisfy never changelogging 
any build fixes.


cu,
Rudi
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