Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 06:21:51PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>  On 07/03/2013 03:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  >On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 12:28:19AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
>  >>Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  >>>%changelog -f <changelog_file>
>  >>>%changelog -g <git_repo>
>  >>
>  >>And, I suppose:
>  >>
>  >>%changelog -s <Subversion_repo>
>  >>%changelog -c <CVS_repo>
>  >>%changelog -m <Monotone_repo>
>  >>%changelog -h <Mercurial_repo>
>  >>%changelog -a <Arch_repo>
>  >>%changelog -b <Bazaar_repo>
>  >
>  >No.  Just implementing -f (local file) solves 80% of cases.  Git most
>  >of the rest.  No one cares about other version control systems.
>  
>  You dont need incompatible-with-rpm-prior-x.y.z %changelog flags for
>  this. At least Mageia and Mandriva have been pulling their rpm
>  changelogs from their dist-vcs for years, see eg
>  https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Changelogs 
SuSE too ...

Rich.

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