I use rpmautospec because it allows me to merge PR’s and cherry-pick changes to older stable branches without constantly having to resolve trivial conflicts in release numbers and changelog entries. This saves only a few seconds at a time, but it really adds up over a large number of packages. Not having to repeat the same message in rpmdev-bumpspec and git commit is an additional small benefit. In exchange, I have less fine-grained control of my changelog entries, and my changelogs probably end up a little noisier than those of packagers who more carefully curate them for end-users. If you only package Rust, your workflow of rewriting the spec file with rust2rpm on every change is (great for Rust, as far as i can tell, but) a significant outlier from most of the Fedora packaging ecosystem. Examining https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz shows 4045 packages that use %autorelease, %autochangelog, or (in most cases) both, out of 24397 total. That’s 16.5% overall—not a majority but certainly a significant fraction. – Ben Beasley (FAS music) On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, at 12:38 PM, Anne Mulhern wrote: > Hi! > > I can tell that some packages are and some aren't, and that's as far as > I can get. > > Also, I'm trying to understand how rpmautospec would help me. I grasp > that the idea is to avoid manually updating the changelog and release > value. But what I don't understand is how that actually improves my > workflow other than dispensing w/ some minor editing. Usually, I need > to run rust2rpm also, and that will tend to lay down plenty of changes, > which I have to evaluate anyway. Or there's some other special handling > that the spec file requires on an update. > > So, another question might be, who uses rpmautospec to their > considerable benefit and how? > > Thanks, > > - mulhern > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
