On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 21:38 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:26 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > > The way I see it is that Fedora packages and Fedora packagers should > > strive to have the best spec files possible. > > > > If providing a version number in the changelog makes it easier for > > users of the package in any way then it should be added to spec files. > > > > I don't see this as an overloading of a tag issue, I see this as a > > packager being lazy issue. Just my wooden nickle. > > It's an overloaded tag b/c the tag did not originally have that intent. > > it's an added bullshit item that clutters up the data. Is this based on any actual problems for tools ? Is yum having trouble b/c of people sticking version numbers into the changelogname ? Or is the main concern the added amount of typing such a guideline would cause and/or the overloading of this field ? David
