On Monday 2010-05-10 12:02, Michael Schroeder wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:30:05AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
If the OBS storage only worked a little more like git, you would not have to do things like these. Or, as the public puts it, authorship and change information does not belong into tracked files, but into the history log.
Huh? OBS already has authorship and change information in the history log.
And 'loses' them when merging (= accepting an SR) whose log entry only reports the acceptance of the SR normally, but does not have all the commits from the branch.
I don't deny software projects their occassional user-level changelog.txt which has all irrelevant developer actions removed, but OBS is pretty much for developers anyway. And right now, .changes looks like a drop-in to counter for the suboptimal history tracking OBS has.
Nonsense. The .changes (and thus rpm's %changelog) is intended for the end user that installs packages, not the developer. The information should be displayed in YaST/zypper, so the user can make an informed decision if he wants to install/update a package.
If it is, then it should probably be trimmed. Users are unlikely to be interested in all the change reasons since 9.3. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org