More unhelpful update descriptions

[Adam Williamson]

On 2013-07-03 8:21, 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

Right. I think *this* is actually rather more practical than trying to 
auto-generate update descriptions. I see much more difference between an 
update description and a package changelog than between a package 
changelog and a package SCM commit log.
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