Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (124 mails)

[Steven Harms <thisdyingdream@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can say that I frequently check the change logs, especially for
CVE's to see which items have been addressed.  The rpm changelog is
both standard and universal.

Steve

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009, à 16:35 +1100, Magnus Boman a écrit :
> > Vincent,
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 02:10 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009, à 12:02 +1100, Magnus Boman a écrit :
> > >  + I like to be able to see the openSUSE changes and upstream changes in
> > >    one place with the rpm changelog
> >
> > Sure, but is it worth spending 80% on a single package update to have
> > something like that? I mean, let's face it, not a whole lot of people
> > ever use the changelog[1] for anything, except when it's asked for in
> > bug reports to confirm that the proper version is installed.
>
> (agree --  was just pointing one of my use cases)
>
> > >  + it helps me review requests submitted to G:F. If I see that upstream
> > >    dropped libgnomeui, but that the packages still depends on
> > >    libgnomeui, I can tell the submitter.
> >
> > This, I consider, is an upstream problem. If we (read you :-) can
> > somehow convince upstream to publish Changelog/NEWS in a machine
> > readable/predictable format, this can caught and an automated warning
> > can be issued.
>
> Heh. That's, hrm, unlikely to happen :/ At the GNOME level, this sounds
> difficult already, so imagine the non-GNOME packages that we maintain
> ;-)
>
> After thinking a bit about it. I'd be okay (if the openSUSE policy is
> fine with that) if we:
>
>  + don't copy all that information there
>  + provide an easy way to see what has changed (eg, provide a link to
>   NEWS or ChangeLog) during the review. Not quite sure how to do that,
>   though.
>  + automatically check that NEWS and ChangeLog are packaged
>
> Also, thinking about it. We might to package all the ChangeLog-2.12
> files that are used in some projects.
>
> Vincent
>
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