We are different: kernel changelog

[Jarod Wilson]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:50:13PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> Looking at
>>
>>   rpm -q --changelog kernel|less
>>
>> one can observe that all kernel maintainers, who added %changelog entries
>> recently, no longer add the package EVR as required by the guidelines:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Changelogs
>>
>> Why?
> 
> Dunno, but if we want to enforce this guideline, we could really do with
> some rpm macro that can be added to koji's build macros, to make RPM
> exit with error if e-v-r is missing from changelog. Sure RPM lint warns
> about this, but it really ought to be easy enough for RPM itself to treat
> this is compulsory if we want it to be that way.

I think we usually try to have them for kernels built for a released 
distro. Seems we're falling down on that at the moment though.

For rawhide, its a bit messy and most folks don't want to waste time 
from working on code to figure out how to determine the EVR of the hour 
(granted, yes, 'make verrel' and add one to the appropriate place is all 
it is...). A fair number of rawhide updates are done in a scripted 
fashion, guess we could add logic to the script to include an EVR.

But really, blocking builds for this? Please no. Worst-case, for 
rawhide, something close to the verrel is typically in there, since our 
VR fields match up pretty closely to upstream.

--jarod