changelog format

Mat Booth fedora at matbooth.co.uk
Mon Apr 20 12:23:31 UTC 2009


2009/4/19 Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>:
> I gather I'm expected to write the changelog in a spec file by hand. How
> strict are the requirements on the format of changelog entries? Are they
> meant to be machine-readable? Is the format specified anywhere? The packaging
> guidelines document contains four examples. Examples are good but they're no
> replacement for a specification.
>
> So far, RPMlint has told me that each entry must start with an asterisk and
> that the international standard date format is bad. Can I trust that the
> format is OK if RPMlint doesn't complain?
>
> Björn Persson
>

Check out the packaging guidelines:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Changelogs


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Mat Booth
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