On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:42:02AM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > I even go as far as reverting branch-only commits and then doing the > > bidirectional merge trick to restore fast forwardability. That of > > course > > clobbers the branch-only changelog section and replaces it with the > > one from > > master, but that's just how things are. Again, I think fast- > > forwardability > > is more useful than per-branch changelogs. > > It's not an either-or. If you resolve the conflict, you can have fast- > forwarding *and* not pass irrelevant/confusing changelogs on to the end > user. > > I personally avoid if statements in spec files and just resolve > conflicts. > > As pointed out elsewhere, we would have fewer conflicts if we could get > the version, release, and changelog out of the spec file, and then I > think maintaining different spec in different release branches would be > easier than it is today.
Small correction: not the version. Just the release and changelog. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
