On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:33:57AM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I often want to make corrections to previous changelog entries. > > This is now allowed for in the draft, with the "obvious error" exception. > > > I sometimes > > want to remove irrelevant changelog entries, usually only cases like > > "Rebuild for rawhide libfoo-1.2.3" when I have that spec in sync with > > previous Fedora/RHEL releases and that changelog entry is > > irrelevant/incorrect for other distros. > > But those are, as you state, "other distros". Each branch of Fedora > (and arguably RHEL, but I have no influence in internal RHT guidelines > obviously) should have a unique spec file. To do otherwise is to > rewrite history. FESCo recently dealt with exactly this issue, and > took a quite dismal view on it. (though in that case it was a script > that was obliterating changelog entries). Please provide a pointer to this issue. The issue that comes to my mind[0] was mainly about reverting changes that other maintainers than the owner performed on spec files. Imho it is valid for a maintainer to mainly develop the spec file in devel and use it for the other branches as well. Regards Till [0] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/298
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