Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (186 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

anicka@xxxxxxx 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 <prusnak@xxxxxxx>
- updated to 1.2.3 (see NEWS)
* Wed Aug 14 2007 Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>
- updated to 1.2.2 (see NEWS)
* Sat Dec 22 2006 Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>
- updated to 1.2.1 (see NEWS)

but ...

> 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
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