More unhelpful update descriptions

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 06:21:51PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 07/03/2013 03:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 12:28:19AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> >>Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>>%changelog -f <changelog_file>
> >>>%changelog -g <git_repo>
> >>
> >>And, I suppose:
> >>
> >>%changelog -s <Subversion_repo>
> >>%changelog -c <CVS_repo>
> >>%changelog -m <Monotone_repo>
> >>%changelog -h <Mercurial_repo>
> >>%changelog -a <Arch_repo>
> >>%changelog -b <Bazaar_repo>
> >
> >No.  Just implementing -f (local file) solves 80% of cases.  Git most
> >of the rest.  No one cares about other version control systems.
> 
> You dont need incompatible-with-rpm-prior-x.y.z %changelog flags for
> this. At least Mageia and Mandriva have been pulling their rpm
> changelogs from their dist-vcs for years, see eg
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines#Changelogs

SuSE too ...

Rich.

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