Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (182 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 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.

Entering changes in wrong order is very easy in OBS. Suppose you have 2
submit-requests against the same version. They both contain patch to
.changes file with the same context. When you accept them in the wrong
order (even the higher SR number can contain the older change) you're in
trouble. Thus I would at least prefer normalizing the times to UTC.

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Best Regards / S pozdravom,

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