spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:11 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:03 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've spent a little bit of time on the shuttle to/from work hacking on
> > Makefile.common.  The general idea is to remove the Release: and %
> > changelog fields from spec files, and have them generated automatically.
> 
> Changelog I might buy into, but Release? There are too many complicated
> cases (Pre/Post immediately spring to mind) to automatically do this.

Can you explain what the problem is with Pre/Post?

> Also, we'd be forcing a hardcoded dist tag here. 

There's nothing hardcoded; you should be able to override it.