Re: F38 proposal: Rpmautospec by Default (System-Wide Change proposal)

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> tl;dr: you want to fix changelog entries. That's supported by saving the
> generated changelog to 'changelog' file and doing whatever edits you want
> there.
> 
> With that approach, you can do arbitrary formatting and fixups. The
> advantage compared to status quo (non-autochangelog) is that you only need
> to do it if the autogenerated changelog is deficient for whatever reasons.
> In the default case you can use autochangelog, and fall back to the manual
> version when necessary.
[snip]
> Rpmautospec allows you to have a part or parts of a commit message that
> end up in the changelog, and parts that do not, see
> https://docs.pagure.org/fedora-infra.rpmautospec/autochangelog.html#changelog-entries-generated-from-commit-messages

All in all a very complicated and error-prone process just to save some 
extremely lazy packagers a 5-second copy&paste. I really do not see why that 
should be the default and recommended process.

The rules how to format the commit message are error-prone, and if you get 
them wrong, you usually only notice when it is too late to fix it (because 
force-pushes are not allowed). Yes, you can manually run "rpmautospec 
generate-changelog", but that is actually no less effort than just taking 
care of the changelog manually to begin with.

        Kevin Kofler
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