On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 9:27 AM Björn Persson <Bjorn@rombobjörn.se> wrote: > > In a package review I came across a changelog entry in this format: > > * Thu Jul 25 12:24:56 CEST 2019 Name <nn@xxxxxxxxxxx> - 0.1.0-1 > > RPM appears to be able to parse that, but the time of day and the > timezone code aren't in the format prescribed by the Packaging > Guidelines. On the other hand it's not clear that the policy is meant > to explicitly forbid such precise timestamps, as it seems mostly > concerned with the placement of the version and release: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#changelogs > > Does the policy need to be updated to allow a time of day and a timezone > code? Or does it need to be clarified to clearly forbid them? > > Ideally the date/time format variants that RPM accepts should be > documented somewhere – in a spec file syntax specification perhaps – and > the guidelines should point to that specification. > This is a new changelog format supported since RPM 4.14. It was added in this commit: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/57f94a582602f0353cdb17a02dc12c4461d4f32d It is supported in all released versions of Fedora, and it is supported in EL8. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-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/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
