On Feb 4, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:51:17PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
Many recent RPMs have a "-" between the packager's e-mail address and
the EVR in the %changelog line. What is the purpose of this dash?
Arbitrary separator.
Entirely arbitrary.
Mandriva nee Mandrake exploited the flaw in rpmbuild's parsing of e-mail
addresses, not checking for the closing '>', and started appending
pkg version
info to RPMTAG_CHANGELOGNAME way back when.
What is the current (well, I mean 4.4.x, if that matters) syntax of
a %changelog line?
Offically, I think it's *just* the date followed by a freeform string
identifying the person who made the change.
Official is rather pompous for a defacto exploit of a parsing flaw,
isn't it?
The parser has not been changed since forever, hardly worth the
effort imho.
73 de Jeff
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