On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:02:10PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > It seems that a lot of people have %file, %check, %build, %whatsoever > in their changelog section. > Is there any reason I should not go and automatically escape them?
This seems like a lot of churn. If we're going to do this, let's go big and get rid of RPM changelogs. When we have a package update, there are basically two different kinds of changelog information. Well, three. First, there's the upstream changelog. We don't generally do much with these except maybe package as %doc. Second, there's package maintainer changelogs. These are really redundant with the dist-git log. We don't really need this anymore. It's just a chore. Third, though, there's end-user information. Why should a user care *This* is redundant with bodhi update info, at least if packagers fill that out, and it often also duplicates upstream changelogs, *and* it often also covers things like "fixes CVE-####' also carried the specfile changelog. This is neither most helpful for user *nor* ideal for packages. Why don't we drop changelogs entirely in favor of 1) using the dist-git logs for specfile maintainers and 2) providing the end-user information in a different way. This could be through specially formatted log lines going with the commit, or it could be simply in a standard separate file (`fedora.user-visible-changes`). Optionally, it could include both a high level end-user summary, and a detailed description for sysadmins and the curious. Wherever it lives, this would be read by Bodhi, so there's would be need to enter it more than once. And, perhaps a DNF plugin could be made to read and display this information for systems administrators. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
