On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 12:18 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> writes: > > MS> You can look _into_ rpms just fine and skim over any included > MS> ChangeLog, NEWS, README files. > > Please tell us how you would do so. Assume the usual case, that the > package is in a remote yum repo. > > Remember that we have no announcement mechanism for Extras packages, > so we have no way to communicate possible incompatible updates to > users. Obviously the idea is to not introduce any incompatible > changes within a single Fedora release, but eventually it's going to > happen and surely a sentence in the %changelog can do nothing but > help. A sentence in the changelog for such an event would be acceptable (IMHO). Dumping big chunks of the package's ChangeLog into the spec would not be. :) ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
