Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 17:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Not a good idea. Different people do this differently, and >> since some of those people are doing bulk rebuilds, there's no >> way to guarantee that exactly the same format will be followed >> in all the historical entries in a changelog. Or do you envision >> that people will actually retroactively change old log entries >> to match their preferred format? Now *that* would be a bad idea. > I thought that the mass bump scripts checked which format has been used. The ones that have hit my packages don't appear to have paid any attention to what was being used before. In any case, different maintainers might have responsibility for the same package over time. Your proposal would require a maintainer to continue with a style he doesn't prefer, or retroactively edit the old entries, neither of which seems like a good idea to me. If there were actually any significant benefit to having One True Style, the guidelines would have mandated one style. Observe that they did not. regards, tom lane -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
