rpm changelog (was Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc)
Mario Blättermann
mariobl at freenet.de
Wed Sep 7 18:29:44 UTC 2011
Am 07.09.2011 20:00, schrieb Michael Cronenworth:
> Genes MailLists on 09/07/2011 12:57 PM wrote:
>> Seems pretty useful for users to see what changed - curious why not?
>
> Users are not programmers. Commits may range from "merge from branch
> such-n-such" to "ran indent to clean up formatting" which has extremely
> little value to users.
+1 from me. Well, it would be convenient to automate the rpm changelog
creation in some way. But we need *our* changelog for *our* changes to
the package. Most packages ship a NEWS file anyway, which includes the
changes to the software itself.
Best Regards,
Mario
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