Re: Ideas for better development processes when maintaining hundreds of packages

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Il giorno mar 28 gen 2020 alle ore 10:04 Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> I always think that Fedora works fine if you maintain 1-5 packages.
> It's possible to maintain 20 with a lot of work.  And if you want to
> maintain 100+ (things like the ocaml-* set that I help to maintain)
> then you have to write your own automation.  Could we do things
> better?  No one asked for them, but here are my ideas ...
>
> ---
>
> * kill the %changelog
>
> Please, let's kill it, and generate it from the git changelog.
> I'm glad to see there's a proposal to do this.
>
> A general principle I'm following here is a packager should never
> be asked to enter the same information twice.
>
> * committing to git should build the package
>
> Is there a reason why this wouldn't be the case?

Sometimes you only add comments to the spec file and a rebuild is not needed.

Ciao
Guido
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