On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 01:12 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: > I consider this to be common sense, but it's not in the guidelines > right now - that changelog entries are immutable. To that end, I have > a really simple draft up here for revision of the guidelines to > explicitly state that. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jstanley/Changelog_Draft > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging I'd like to see another exception, trimming out an automated rebuild entry. These don't really add much to the history of the package, no change to the package was made, and it does cause inconsistencies across the Fedora releases when these specs are kept in sync. And yet another exception, trimming the history for brevity. We don't really need rpm changelogs dating back to 1995 for some of these packages. I think it would be worth stating the /reason/ why we discourage changing changelog entries, as opposed to just saying "YOU MUST NOT DO IT" and expecting the maintainer to reach a logical conclusion as to why. When you give them the why, you enable them to consider that why with what it is they desire to do and make a reasonable informed decision about their action. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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