rawhide report: 20081220 changes

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sun Dec 21 16:38:18 UTC 2008


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:28:38PM +0100, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> 
> I also didn't find the rules fuzzy, but - they read:
> 
> == snip ==
> 
> You must use one of the following formats:
> 
> * Fri Jun 23 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 0.6-4
> - And fix the link syntax.
> 
> * Fri Jun 23 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> 0.6-4
> - And fix the link syntax.
> 
> * Fri Jun 23 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
> - 0.6-4
> - And fix the link syntax.
> 
> == snip ==
> 
> And while these three variants only differ in the way the
> version-release is specified, I can't see how from that follows that
> the rest is free form? Maybe I'm missing something, but all three
> clearly use simple dashes for each stanza of the changelog entry.

If I recall well, the FPC ruling was not about anything else than 
the version release format. I didn't found any trace of that, though.
That being said it is indeed unclear from the guideline that only 
the date and version-release is specified here.

--
Pat




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