On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:30 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > the tag name in the rpm header is: > > changelogname > > notice it doesn't say 'changelogname and other arbitrary crap' But "name" of a changelog entry is ambiguous. createrepo takes the position of calling it the author of the changelog entry, which was surprising to me in our discussion a couple of years ago, and you seemed to understand that point of view: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2004-July/000397.html https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2004-July/000398.html https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2004-July/000399.html Has something changed since, like the purpose of changelogname documented to have a certain official meaning? changelogname->changelogauthor could be called overloading or narrowing too... ;)