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[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, December 17, 2004 3:21 PM -0500 Colin Walters 
<walters at redhat.com> wrote:

> Second, get rid of the RPM changelog embedded in the spec file;
> conceptually the goo to build a package is independent of the history of
> that goo.  Just extract the history from the RCS, or have a separate
> file, or something.

The changelog should reflect the history of the *packaging*, not the 
package.

> Third, get rid of the idea of manually bumping revision numbers and
> hardcoding these in the spec file.  These should be automatically
> generated from the upstream source version and a package build database
> when I want to build a package.

A lot of packages include a spec.in file which is then passed through sed 
to install the version number in the spec file before a tarball is 
generated. Eliminating this extra step would make it easier for upstreams 
to provide RPM support by eliminating this extra step.