On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:41 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > 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... ;) > I understand it - and what's changed is my interest in the guessing game of what will or will not be in that field. name == author to me and evr should be in a different tag. -sv
