On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:05 PM Maxwell G <maxw...@gtmx.me> wrote: > > I'll bite :). I changed the subject accordingly. > > On Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 00:31 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > > Packaging become an automatized task, and maintainers don't pay > > attention to %changelog beauty so they simply generate it from git-log > > (but I'd claim that git-log != %changelog). > > I tend to agree. A package's git log and %changelog have different > purposes and cater to different audiences. The former focusses on > developers. Each commit should each contain a single logical change to > the code in distgit (specfile/patches/sources) with body text to justify > the change as appropriate. The %changelog is a user-visible summary that > should only mention user-visible changes and not have extra information > related to the development itself. For simpler packages, combining these > two logs via rpmautospec (with the ability to [skip changelog] commits) > can work well, but in other cases, including every single commit message > can create a %changelog full of garbage or otherwise confuse packagers. > > > %changelog become one of the most painful maintainers' headache :) > > > > What do you think about a static changelog like: > > > > %changelog > > * See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/<PKG>/commits/rawhide > > > > Aren't we ready to admit (something like) this is enough? > > The %changelog is supposed to follow a specific format, as per the > guidelines, and the datestamps are used to set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. > Replacing the entire changelog with this type of text would break that, > and I think having a (potentially flawed) %changelog generated from the > git log is better than none at all. >
I'm also generally opposed to dropping the changelog since it is the main method of providing attribution to all contributors past and present to a package when it is redistributed, especially over the mirror networks, ISOs, etc. Remember that our version control system *does not matter* because it's not how sources are *actually* delivered. That's the SRPMs that are built and shipped alongside the binary packages. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
