On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 03:25 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
The format is fairly straightforward:
- first line (elements separated by spaces):
- asterisk
- date in Wkd Mth dd yyyy format (e.g. Mon Apr 21 2009) (if the day is just 1 digit, you can write any of "1", " 1" or "01")
- your name
- your e-mail address between angle brackets ('<' and '>')
- optionally a dash
- the EVR (Epoch-Version-Release) of the package, without the disttag, e.g. 3.5.10-1 for 3.5.10-1.fc11, 3.5.10-1.1 for 3.5.10-1.fc11.1, 6:4.2.2-1 if the package has Epoch 6 (the Epoch is specified only if present and you use a ':' between Epoch and Version)
- any other lines (elements separated by spaces):
- dash (plain ASCII dash, please don't use some strange UTF-8 character)
- text describing your change
- if your change doesn't fit in one line, start a new line and indent it with 2 spaces, so it is aligned with the text above (which has a dash and a space)
- bugs should be referenced as (#666666) (or, if there's any chance of confusion, (rh#666666)) for Fedora bugs and as (foo#666666), where foo is the relevant bug tracker (e.g. kde, sf, fdo etc.), for upstream bugs
( I have always been told that there should be one empty line between two entry :) )
Regards, Pierre