anicka@suse.cz wrote:
Actually, although it is much better than the thing we are doing now, just imagine how weird will it look after several updates:
- updated to 1.2.3 (see NEWS) - updated to 1.2.2 (see NEWS) - updated to 1.2.1 (see NEWS)
It is not so weird when you consider the entries headers
* Tue Nov 13 2008 Pavol Rusnak
It would be probably better to think up some standard location for a changelog and maintain it as a symlink to the proper file, without having to talk about it again and again in RPM changelog.
... I agree with that. We could create symlinks from NEWS or ChangeLog to Upstream_Changes (or something like that) and later patch rpm to use this file (eg. rpm -q --upstreamchangelog pkg.rpm). We could also add macro %changes which will mark the file in filelist and create the link automatically. There is one problem, though. Some projects have information scattered in both NEWS and ChangeLog files, but I agree that it is a problem of these projects, not distribution. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org