On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:23:35 +0000, Jamie Nguyen wrote:
I've seen on a few occasions reviewers mention that they
can't tell what
has changed in the spec since the previous version, as the new packager
has overwritten the previous spec.
If the packager does that, it makes the rpmdev-diff command less useful,
The src.rpm file name should be different for each new update to the spec
file.
I've also seen reviewers ask the new packager to document changes
in the
changelog as they go along, even before release, as it's quite helpful
for both packager and reviewer.
It's common practice to document spec changes in the %changelog. Packagers,
who don't do that during review, often don't know yet how helpful the
changelog can be when running into packaging issues later.