On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 5:17 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 4:48 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 02:10:52PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 2:02 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rpmautospec_by_Default > > > Have we made sure that when Red Hat forks Fedora packages for RHEL > > > that they don't truncate or eliminate the Git history anymore? Because I would > > > personally be very displeased if my historical attribution went away > > > because of broken processes like the one used to fork all the Fedora > > > Linux 34 packages for CentOS Stream 9. > > > > I can't speak for the RH folks who do the forking… It'd be great if > > somebody who knows how that's done could answer. > > > > Fedora is already using rpmautospec widely enough that (if it was to > > be problem at all), it must already be a problem. > > > > At the level of specific solutions, obviously the obvious answer is to > > keep the git history. It's in general a great of source of information > > and discarding that is just an error. But if somebody were really to do that, > > it's fairly trivial to undo the conversion and get a static changelog > > again by inserting the output of 'rpmautospec changelog' in the %changelog > > section. > > > > As they are the most prominent downstream we have, I would like this > resolved before changing Fedora's defaults. > > At the time we branched from Fedora Linux 34, there were very few > packages using rpmautospec and I don't think any that were kept used > rpmautospec. Now it is very obvious it would be a problem, so I would > like that fixed first. CentOS and RHEL infrastructure needs to account > for it properly and not gut the Git history. We can look into it, but at the moment this is unlikely to change on the CentOS Stream/RHEL side. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
