Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (124 mails)

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:02 +1100, Magnus Boman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently, when doing package updates, we have some (strange) policy
> that we have to put in what changes upstream made (ie, bugfixes, new
> features etc).
>
> All this information is already available in the NEWS/ChangeLog file for
> most packages.
>
> Since this doesn't seem to be an openSUSE policy [1] I wonder why we
> enforce this for GNOME components?
>
> Enforcing updates of the changelog makes it possible to check details of
> upstream changes with;
>
> # rpm -q --changelog nautilus
>
> By not enforcing these changes, one can do;
>
> # cat /usr/share/doc/packages/nautilus/NEWS
>
> I see little (if any) value in doing this, but it adds a lot of time
> when doing a package update, so I would like to change the policy to
> simple contain specific updates that the packager made (add/remove patch
> etc)
>
> Opinions?
My opinion is that we should stick with the current policy, since is the
team maintaining all packages(everyone can bump a pkg) it's useful to
know what changed from a release to another, specially what dirty hacks,
workarounds and dependencies were remove along with new features
introduced that might not be enabled. Also it keeps easier to keep
tracking bugs on upstream -> bnc.

Luis

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