Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> writes:
That needs conventions. .changes is a convention. A random file whose name contains at least one capital (I have seen NEWS, README, README.md, CHANGES, ChangeLog, Readme and ReadMe in this thread alone) is not a convention, sorry.
Sure, that's why I said the packager should check it (and, ça va sans dire, convert it to the well-defined NEWS format--see one of these GNU packages). You are confusing the well defined file formats and their meaning, if you mix all this stuff :)
Currently that one defined place is the rpm changelog, generated from the .changes file. Note that the current policy is nothing new. This whole bruhaha thread is coming about five years late.
1/ It's never too late. 2/ Now it is an openSUSE issue. But what's probably more important: the policey is 5 years old but still does not fly. Time for something new :) BTW, .changes files themselves are somehow defined, but their definition is not that strict. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or not. -- Karl Eichwalder SUSE LINUX Products GmbH R&D / Documentation Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org