On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 22:19 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > seth vidal wrote: > > Hey, > > I'd love to hear more comments on this > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197699 > > > > > > I've read the guidelines and I don't see where it mandates the format of > > the changelog lines. > > > > The guidelines indeed don't mandate this. However everybody does it. > I've not apprioved reviews because of the rpmlint warning not doing this > causes. > > More importantly, without adding the version its really hard to find out > what exactly changed with which release. So even if you can pin a > problem down to showing up after a certain release, you still do not > know what has caused the problem. > > I believe the guidelines must be fixed to make adding the version to the > changelog a must! Then the only ambiguity left is that some people put > " - " between the email and the version and others only " ". Now i think > that both are ok as long as they are used consistent within a package. > I think it should not be a must - it overloads a field. the tag name in the rpm header is: changelogname notice it doesn't say 'changelogname and other arbitrary crap' it says changelogname. if we want version-specific info stored per-changelog entry then we need a new tag. -sv
