On 2017-10-16 13:34:56 +0000, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar (dimstar@opensuse.org) [20171016 14:58]:
This is actually what the guideline says you should be doing when using upstream's changelog: strip irrelevant things (Windows installer fixes? MacOSX build fix, non-openSUSE releated feature fixes).
And sometimes you're lucky to maintain a package like coreutils that has a ChangeLog and NEWS that I often whish all other packages to have as every addition, change in behaviour or bug fix is mentioned and in case of bugs it's mentioned which release introduced that bug.
But I admit that it *is* sometimes hard to determine the importance of an entry. My rule of thumb is if it's relevant for a user of the package, not for someone that either wants to build his own packages or even change the code.
Consider this: For all packages which do not have such a nice file, we now suggest "I as a packager dont feel like doing the work, to compile the list of important changes, instead i expect that every of other contributors/users in the project goes through the hassle" Seems much more reasonable no? One person doing the work vs dozens or hundred of people having to do it over and over. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org