Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (182 mails)

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 19, Pavol Rusnak wrote:

> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > Pavol Rusnak schrieb:
> > > Michael Matz wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > > Does this mean there will be another external authorative source for 
> > > > > > > this kind of information in the future (thus, the .spec files will 
> > > > > > > be edited automatically again)?  Or can the local file that the 
> > > > > > > .spec
> > > > > > They will be formatted - to add the changelog for example. but the 
> > > > > > attributes and the texts do not have another source from what I 
> > > > > > understood.
> > > > > Is there any reason we put the changelog data in %changelog since the 
> > > > > data is in .changes files??
> > > > No.  If you did or do that, you're wasting time.  %changelog was and will 
> > > > be rewritten from the content of .changes.  We for instance never cared 
> > > > for %changelog sections in .spec files, only for .changes files.  Simply 
> > > > leave the section empty (I'm not sure what happens if you leave it out 
> > > > alltogether, so just empty it).
> > > Right. If you leave it out, rpmlint will emit a warning. But I have
> > > another question: isn't now a good time to get rid off .changes files
> > > completely? (+adjusting tools like vc and osc)
> >
> > Hum, why?
> > I very much prefer the *.changes files about the changelog in the spec
> > file. Why would you want to change that?
>
> 1) They are SUSE specific
> 2) They contain time with timezone, which sometimes cause trouble

Only if you enter them in the wrong order.
Especially the time with timezone information is very helpful for
me track who made which changes at which time in which order.

  Thorsten

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