"Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com> writes:
I agree that rpm changelog should only be _required_ to talk about the packaging of the software, not the software itself except those changes added by the package, ie patches and whatever the patches do. It's even a messy distraction to see stuff in rpm changelog that is about the software itself.
+1 [...]
rpm changelog should have basic version and upstream source info, spec changes, which includes any noteworthy integration info, compiler options, enabled/disabled features, and only those software changes and bug fixes supplied by that package on top of upstream.
At least these days that would be the most sane for me. Maybe the changelog feature was originally added to rpm to hold essentially the softwares changelog, but I don't think that's the best use for the feature, especially not now when packagers are distinct from authors.
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