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

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> On 28 Jan 2020, at 11:32, Guido Aulisi <guido.aulisi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

You don’t know that. What if you accidentally insert a newline in your comment?

> 
> Ciao
> Guido
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