Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > […]
>> I was not fully aware of this and I've personally hit this difficulty >> not on my proposal of the remove hicolor icon caches but on proposing, >> for example, OpenIPMI or readline changes. >> Most of my changes were by those packages maintainers simple discarded >> (readline 100% and in case OpenIPMI ~50%). >> I'm not trying to blame anyone here but all this only *result* of some >> assumptions that master branch must be fully compatible with more than >> one distribution or more than one distribution versions. > Well, I think because this is simply easy. If we separate changelog to other > file / make it auto-generated, then it should be easier for people to maintain > f26/f27/master branches separately. Right now, cherry-picking is never cleanly > applies due to changelog. Well, we need to do something with Release field as > well, I don't know why it is still not auto-generated... > […] GNU had the same problem in various projects and came up with a Git merge driver for changelogs (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/git-merge-changelog.c). Now that is a text parsing orgy in C, probably provably cor- rect, but it suggests that a simpler solution for RPM spec files should be very feasible. Tim _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
