radical suggestion for fc4 release

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Tue Feb 1 10:40:14 UTC 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:01:57 -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:37:29PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Oh, no.  *Bad* idea.  It's an attack on the symptom, not the problem.
> 
> No, it's a *good* idea IMO. Problem is it does't go all the way.
> WTH are changelogs doing in .spec files?!?  This is the job of the version 
> control system, not of packaging specifications.

Uhm, they document package changes. Ever taken a look at

  rpm --query --changelog kernel | less

?
 
> It probably comes from the (misguided) school of thought that includes 
> $Log$ in source files...
 
No.




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