Hi list,
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 11:50, Pierre-Yves Chibon
<pingou(a)pingoured.fr>
wrote:
> Good Morning Everyone,
>
> This topic has already been discussed a few times over the past month, but
> Adam
> Saleh, Nils Philippsen and myself have had the opportunity to invest some
> time
> on it with the hope of making the packager's life simpler as well as
> making it
> easier to build automation around our package maintenance.
>
Going through the various discussions, I think we are running into a
classic sausage factory problem.. everyone wants to have their favourite
meat, but the only way to make it work is mix them all together, grind it
up and come up with something else.
I have to agree with Stephen here. As someone who has been heavily
involved in building packages on OBS, where the Release field is
generated automatically by the build server: I don't see a problem in
automatically generating the release field, I would actually very much
welcome it. But then none of my packages fall into the "Beaufort D'Ete"
category, so I might be missing something here.
For the changelog: yes please, generate it from the commit log! They are
more or less the same for all my packages and I'm getting tired of copy
pasting the same text into %changelog and git commit.
Cheers,
Dan