On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:57:34PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:54 PM Matthew Miller > <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > > That makes it extra steps to see changelogs on a not-installed package. > > > I do sometimes do "rpm -q --changelog -p foo.rpm" or "dnf changelog foo" > > > (for example, to see what is changed since my installed version). > > > Converting to an installed file means I would have to extract the RPM > > > (possibly after manually downloading) and find it under a different > > > directory for every RPM - much less convenient. > > > > A dnf plugin could be made which shows metadata like this from > > src.fedoraproject.org or bodhi or some other source. > > > > That's not helpful beyond Fedora, though. When it's forked into RHEL > or CentOS, that changelog history from Fedora is preserved today. RHEL > forks Fedora at the git level, so generated changelogs from Git will > still work, and since CentOS gets SRPM imports into its Dist-Git, > they'll be flattened into %changelog sections as appropriate. But if > we rely on a web service to get changelogs, we screw over that > particular transition path.
Sure, but how often is that changelog: "Updated to 10.0.1" or "Fixed typo" I pretty much stopped reading changelogs a while back. Looking at the upstream NEWS or announcement is better for releases, and just looking at the git commits is better for isolating some change in packaging. kevin
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