changelogs in packages and space use
David Cantrell
dcantrell at redhat.com
Fri Aug 31 19:00:57 UTC 2007
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:58:26 -0400
"Colin Walters" <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Some packages are essentially the upstream source for a project,
>
>
> Yes, and I think this should be strongly discouraged. For starters, spec
> files and patches are a poor substitute for revision control. It also makes
> it significantly more painful for other people to reuse the work (c.f. the
> Ubuntu developer's request).
>
> If we have situations like this - put up a project on
> hosted.fedoraproject.org. Or code.google.com. Or sourceforge.
Done and done. I moved mine, but some haven't moved and probably won't for a while. Even when they do move, the project will need to change how it handles recording changes going forward.
I'm just saying that having a script mow down changelog entries is a bad idea. It should be in the hands of the package maintainer.
--
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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