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Re: [opensuse-packaging] spec file templates ?
- From: Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:29:57 +0200
- Message-id: <20050928092957.GL17812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Rauch Christian wrote:
> Adrian Schroeter schrieb:
> >I thought about to create a svn repo for spec file templates. One for KDE,
> >Gnome, perl, apache module or whatever.
> >
> >Is there some interest that we should create one or are you fine with the
> >solution to have these in the wiki ?
In my opinion a svn repository is better because the tools are just more
mature for browsing history (to understand changes and so on) than using a
browser and clicking through multiple history pages.
> The bigger problem i see, is WHY some changes are made to exisiting spec
> files, as there is almost
> no documentation in these.
I can second that but that could be solved by the repository idea if you train
people to write a useful change comment when they commit a change.
Currently you often read in the changelog of many packages something like
"removing foo bar" but nothing actually explains why this is removed from all
packages. Most likely there was a choice based on a reason but it would be
interesting to know this reason.
Robert
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Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Adrian Schroeter schrieb:
> >I thought about to create a svn repo for spec file templates. One for KDE,
> >Gnome, perl, apache module or whatever.
> >
> >Is there some interest that we should create one or are you fine with the
> >solution to have these in the wiki ?
In my opinion a svn repository is better because the tools are just more
mature for browsing history (to understand changes and so on) than using a
browser and clicking through multiple history pages.
> The bigger problem i see, is WHY some changes are made to exisiting spec
> files, as there is almost
> no documentation in these.
I can second that but that could be solved by the repository idea if you train
people to write a useful change comment when they commit a change.
Currently you often read in the changelog of many packages something like
"removing foo bar" but nothing actually explains why this is removed from all
packages. Most likely there was a choice based on a reason but it would be
interesting to know this reason.
Robert
--
Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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