On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 6:58 PM Justin Forbes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:10 PM Paul Bolle <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > Nobody noticed, so this is just a nit, but ever since the v5.8.14 build for
> > fc32 there's this in the fc32 build logs:
> >      error: %changelog not in descending chronological order
> >
> > I think what triggers this is that you've recently added extended the
> > datestamp on your changelog entries with timestamps. Eg:
> >     * Wed Oct  7 07:21:23 CDT 2020 Justin M. Forbes 
> > <[email protected]> - 5.8.14-200
>
> Yes, this is what triggers it, and it is added by a change in
> rpmdev-bumpspec in F33.   I was kind of hoping that rpm would also be
> changed to ignore this, so I have not done anything about it.  I
> suppose I could look into it, but it is just noise at the moment.
>
> >
> > But if the preceding changelog entry doesn't have a timestamp, like:
> >     * Wed Oct  7 2020 Peter Robinson <[email protected]>
> >
> > rpmbuild spits out an "error:" but merrily continues the build! (I have no
> > idea how that works. Both the timestamp comparison and the build ignoring an
> > error.)
> >
> > Do people care enough to try to fix this?
>
> With the cause coming from a change in rpmdev-bumpspec, I am guessing
> that kernel is not the only package to notice it, though we do use
> scripts calling it more than most I suppose.  I may look into it, but
> from a tooling standpoint, we will likely end up changing a lot of
> scripts, so it is fairly low priority at the moment.

The change is due to be reverted to the old date method, details in
https://pagure.io/rpmdevtools/issue/63
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