On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 13:11 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > In principle, the system for extracting %changelog from git might work, > with two provisos: > > - people understand that git changelogs have slightly different purpose > than RPM changelogs: git records 'what' changed, while RPM should also > tell 'why' it was changed. In other words, we'd be relying on developers > making high-level as well as low-level comments in the 'log. > > - the volume of changelog output should not overwhelm useful information > contained in the log. It's not really in principle; other distros have been doing this for years (it's been this way in Mandriva ever since I became a contributor there). The RPM changelog is generated from SCM commit messages. If you want an SCM commit message not to show up in the RPM changelog - say it's just you fixing a stupid mistake in the spec - preface it with SILENT: . This system always seemed to work fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
