changelog format

[Pierre-Yves]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 03:25 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> The format is fairly straightforward:
> 
> * first line (elements separated by spaces):
>   - asterisk
>   - date in Wkd Mth dd yyyy format (e.g. Mon Apr 21 2009)
>     (if the day is just 1 digit, you can write any of "1", " 1" or "01")
>   - your name
>   - your e-mail address between angle brackets ('<' and '>')
>   - optionally a dash
>   - the EVR (Epoch-Version-Release) of the package, without the disttag,
>     e.g. 3.5.10-1 for 3.5.10-1.fc11, 3.5.10-1.1 for 3.5.10-1.fc11.1,
>          6:4.2.2-1 if the package has Epoch 6 (the Epoch is specified only
>          if present and you use a ':' between Epoch and Version)

> * any other lines (elements separated by spaces):
>   - dash (plain ASCII dash, please don't use some strange UTF-8 character)
>   - text describing your change
>   - if your change doesn't fit in one line, start a new line and indent it
>     with 2 spaces, so it is aligned with the text above (which has a dash
>     and a space)
>   - bugs should be referenced as (#666666) (or, if there's any chance of
>     confusion, (rh#666666)) for Fedora bugs and as (foo#666666), where foo
>     is the relevant bug tracker (e.g. kde, sf, fdo etc.), for upstream bugs
( I have always been told that there should be one empty line between
two entry :) )

Regards,
Pierre