I'll bite :). I changed the subject accordingly. On Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 00:31 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Packaging become an automatized task, and maintainers don't pay > attention to %changelog beauty so they simply generate it from git-log > (but I'd claim that git-log != %changelog). I tend to agree. A package's git log and %changelog have different purposes and cater to different audiences. The former focusses on developers. Each commit should each contain a single logical change to the code in distgit (specfile/patches/sources) with body text to justify the change as appropriate. The %changelog is a user-visible summary that should only mention user-visible changes and not have extra information related to the development itself. For simpler packages, combining these two logs via rpmautospec (with the ability to [skip changelog] commits) can work well, but in other cases, including every single commit message can create a %changelog full of garbage or otherwise confuse packagers. > %changelog become one of the most painful maintainers' headache :) > > What do you think about a static changelog like: > > %changelog > * See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/<PKG>/commits/rawhide > > Aren't we ready to admit (something like) this is enough? The %changelog is supposed to follow a specific format, as per the guidelines, and the datestamps are used to set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Replacing the entire changelog with this type of text would break that, and I think having a (potentially flawed) %changelog generated from the git log is better than none at all. -- Best, Maxwell G (@gotmax23) Pronouns: He/They _______________________________________________ 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
