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

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* Pierre-Yves Chibon:

>> Sorry for being unclear.  The spec file in dist-git would still show
>> some (older) version of the %changelog entries under this model.
>> 
>> The corrections would update the %changelog with all the historic
>> entries.  Since auto-generation stops at this commit, the new generated
>> %changelog will include the fixed entries.
>> 
>> This would also avoid the need for a new knob to adjust how far back the
>> %changelog generation goes.
>
> Let me rephrase to see if I understand correctly.
> The changelog would be something like:
> ``
> %changelog
> %generate_changelog
>
> <The changelog up to the point the packager opted to use the macro above>
> ``
>
> This way we don't need to generate the old entries, we can just focus on the
> commits once the packager has opted in and not look at the old commits in the
> git history.
>
> Is that what you were thinking?

Yes, but the generation would not stop when %generate_changelog was
added, but when the last edit below %changelog was made.

Does this make sense?  Sorry if I'm not explaining this properly.

Thanks,
Florian
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