On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 07:20:46AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> Now I agree that extending RPM to add metadata to mark the upstream >> changelog file or URL would be an excellent idea. It's a one-off >> change to specfiles and means that we don't need to write the same >> thing in every update - a win all round. >> >> Suggestions: >> >> %doc(changelog): ChangeLog.txt >> Changelog-URL: http://example.com/changes.html > > How would that work for changelogs stored in a git repository? If it has a web interface, you can link to that: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=log If it doesn't then my proposal just degenerates to the one on the table now -- ie. the packager has to write the in the update description. But my proposal would make life far simpler in the (common) case where a changelog can be provided either in a file or online. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
