On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 16:12 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 07:39:19PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> > Hmmm. I think I don't consider it duplicated information. A commit >> > messages in the VCS afaics is something that is written for other >> > developers that want to understand/track changes (now or in the future). >> >> This was my first thought too -- but then, there's also dist-git, which >> may be what this refers to. > > It is, but the distinction still holds. The intended readers of the > dist-git commit messages are the distribution packagers: the package > 'developers'. The intended readers of the RPM changelogs are the RPM > consumers, i.e. users (albeit users with the moderate level of savvy > necessary to read RPM changelogs). Neither are really satisfactory for a number of reasons. >> I wouldn't be completely opposed to phasing >> out in-package changelogs in favor of some tool which presents that to >> users in a nice way. (dnf plugin!) > > Please, no, don't do that. RPM is a standard, the changelog is part of > that. It would be pretty crappy to just declare we're going to stop > using RPM changelogs and bake some random new idea into our distro's > packaging tools instead. I agree with Adam here. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
