On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 08:33 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 09:49:03PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 08:02:23PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > > > Agreed. changelog and version field conflicts are 90% of my cherry-pick > > > conflicts. > > > I would be in favour of no longer maintaining a changelog in the spec file > > > > As long as it gets put into the final RPM in the build process somehow. `rpm > > --changelog` is often very, very useful in the field. > > Absolutely! > > BTW SuSE has not had an RPM %changelog section for at least 4 years. > However they have a system where a hand-written <package>.changes file > is incorporated into the spec during the build, so their solution > isn't directly applicable. As I always mention when this comes up - once a year on average - Mandriva has been auto-generating the package changelog from the SCM changelog for years, ever since switching from CVS to SVN. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
