On 19/04/13 09:44 PM, Alex G. wrote:
On 04/19/2013 09:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On 19/04/13 06:16 PM, Alex G. wrote:
On 04/15/2013 05:30 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
Is there any guidance as when to trim %changelog down to size? Some
packages have thousands of lines of spec file dating back over 15
years which seem kinda redundant now we're using git.
I've always seen the %changelog as a relic from times when we didn't
have reliable source SCMs. For me, it is redundant (and boring) to have
to update the %changelog, while I have the exact same information in the
git history.
I think the best way to go is to obsolete %changelog, and extract the
changelog directly from git history. I don't care as much about how far
back it should go. As far as knowing the package version (i.e. 1.2.3-6)
for each commit, that can easily be handled with a git hook.
So, why bother putting similar information in two places when there are
better ways to go?
Thanks - I just won a small bet with myself as to when this thread would
circle back to that discussion yet again...
I respectfully disagree with the assertion that the discussion is circular.
Sorry, not within this thread - but any discussion vaguely in this area
inevitably winds up with someone suggesting that RPM and git logs get
merged somehow. I've done it myself. It's come up probably a half dozen
times just since I've been reading the list.
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