spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:03 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've spent a little bit of time on the shuttle to/from work hacking on
> > Makefile.common.  The general idea is to remove the Release: and %
> > changelog fields from spec files, and have them generated automatically.
> 
> Changelog I might buy into, but Release? There are too many complicated
> cases (Pre/Post immediately spring to mind) to automatically do this.
> Also, we'd be forcing a hardcoded dist tag here. 

We should optimize for the common case - not the edge-case. I'd welcome
this automated release / changelog management. If a handful of packages
need to opt-out that's still a huge win for the common case.

Dan.
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