Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 07:39:19PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hmmm. I think I don't consider it duplicated information. A commit
> messages in the VCS afaics is something that is written for other
> developers that want to understand/track changes (now or in the future).
This was my first thought too -- but then, there's also dist-git, which
may be what this refers to. I wouldn't be completely opposed to phasing
out in-package changelogs in favor of some tool which presents that to
users in a nice way. (dnf plugin!)
My dist-git commit messages often contain stuff that is too long for the RPM
%changelog. They also usually contain a complete paste of the RPM %changelog
entry including the date + author + EVR line in the body (plus a summary as
the special first line, plus occasionally some additional freeform text as a
separate paragraph below the changelog snippet paste). If you attempt to
generate an RPM %changelog from that, it will look really, really ugly.
Kevin Kofler