On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Magnus Boman wrote:
Hello,
I've noticed that a lot of packages going in to Factory does not have "proper" Changelog entries as explained to me (ie, copy redundant information from NEWS/Changelog entries upstream and put it in <packagename>.changes).
My question is, do we have a project wide policy for this, or would it be enough to add what has been done by the package updater (ie, update to version x.y.z, add/remove patch etc)?
Personally, I am in favor of not having to put it what changed upstream, since in most cases, this would be contained in a NEWS/Changelog file anyway.
Well, there have been requests and (internal?) policy that an entry
with just
* New upstream version 1.2.3
is not appropriate and that we indeed _should_ paste in (IMHO
redundant and not appropriate for the rmp .changes) contents from
NEWS/Changelog.
So - we are just doing what is requested.
Yes, I think that the rpm .changes is to document _packaging_ changes
and not package changes.
Richard.
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Richard Guenther