On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 10:21:37AM -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
> On 10/3/19 10:16 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> said:
> > > I think rather than this, we should bite the bullet and remove changelogs
> > > entirely from spec files.
> >
> > I find "rpm -q --changelog" useful (at least when maintainers put useful
> > info there, which isn't always), so please don't.
>
> I am in favor of removing changelogs from spec files, but I do understand
> that some people find them useful. How about a meet halfway point and have
> a macro that maintainers can use to automatically generate spec file
> changelog blocks for projects which we are also the upstream for?
>
> I have this silly script to generate an spec file changelog block (complete
> with the hyphen prefixing and wrapping of lines and escaping percent signs)
> that generates a block from the most recent tag on a git repo:
>
> ==========
> #!/bin/sh
>
> PATH=/usr/bin
> CWD="$(pwd)"
>
> LATEST_TAG="$(git tag --sort=taggerdate | tail -n 1)"
>
> git log --format=%s ${LATEST_TAG}.. | tac | while read line ; do
> first=1
> echo "${line}" | sed -e 's|%|%%|g' | fold -s -w 70 | \
> while read subline ; do
> if [ ${first} -eq 1 ]; then
> echo "- ${subline}"
> first=0
> else
> echo " ${subline}"
> fi
> done
> done
> ==========
>
> I take this output and paste it in the spec file and then delete the lines I
> don't want. Could be expanded to take a repo as a parameter, etc.
Or just add some RPM metadata tags to record the upstream SCM type + URL +
branch / release tag, etc. The user can thus easily find the upstream
full commit logs corresponding to the pacakge.
Regards,
Daniel
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