On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:49 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:50:09PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > If it's worth anything at all, as a sysadmin, I find having (e:)v-r > > > information in the changelog to be incredibly useful. > > why? the date tells me more b/c at least that has _something_ to do with > > the versions, etc. > > I often have to look for "in what version of the package was bug X or > problem Y addressed?" Knowing it was fixed in May 2005 is *kinda* helpful, > but knowing that it was fixed in a certain version is usually exactly what I > need to know. > > I agree that it's less than elegant to put this data in the packager name > field, but given that anything else would require patching RPM, backporting > that patch to every distro, and changing every package, I'm okay with it. No - we need to fix rpm in fedora and that's all that matters we're more or less maintaining a fork of rpm in fedora anyway - let's just DO IT and be done. it's not like upstream rpm has any meaning anymore, anyway. -sv
