On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 6:38 PM Anne Mulhern <amulhern@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. In my experience, using rpmautospec reduces the number of manual steps that are required when updating a package. For example, when using rust2rpm, you no longer need to make sure to preserve old changelog entries, or keep Release number in sync, as they are now both filled automatically. You also no longer need to paste a description of the change in two places (i.e. the changelog entry *and* the commit message), but just once. Doing this "minor editing" and manually adding changelog entries without rpmautospec might not be a problem if you're only maintaining a dozen packages, but it is a massive time sink when you're responsible for thousands of packages (like me). > 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? I use it (and rust2rpm has defaulted to it for a while) because even if it saves only a little bit of manual work, doing that manual work is error-prone, and the time you spend on it is quite significant - especially when you're maintaining lots of packages. Fabio _______________________________________________ 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
