Luis, On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 01:07 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:02 +1100, Magnus Boman wrote:
Hello,
Currently, when doing package updates, we have some (strange) policy that we have to put in what changes upstream made (ie, bugfixes, new features etc).
All this information is already available in the NEWS/ChangeLog file for most packages.
Since this doesn't seem to be an openSUSE policy [1] I wonder why we enforce this for GNOME components?
Enforcing updates of the changelog makes it possible to check details of upstream changes with;
# rpm -q --changelog nautilus
By not enforcing these changes, one can do;
# cat /usr/share/doc/packages/nautilus/NEWS
I see little (if any) value in doing this, but it adds a lot of time when doing a package update, so I would like to change the policy to simple contain specific updates that the packager made (add/remove patch etc)
Opinions?
My opinion is that we should stick with the current policy, since is the team maintaining all packages(everyone can bump a pkg) it's useful to know what changed from a release to another, specially what dirty hacks, workarounds and dependencies were remove along with new features introduced that might not be enabled. Also it keeps easier to keep tracking bugs on upstream -> bnc.
I didn't mean that packagers shouldn't have to explain their "dirty hacks" etc in the changelog. I'm strictly talking about what's already available in NEWS/Changelog files, which is redundant information that is already available and a cause of wasting time, especially since I don't believe that a whole lot of people ever use it. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org