On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > >> FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to >> do something in his scripts that create them? Beyond that I don't >> see much point in checking-in a ChangeLog.
I can add that too. > It definitely shouldn't be checked into git, but rather generated from > the git commit logs; with git2cl, git log or similar. With an autotools > based build system you would add a command to the Makefile.am so that > automake runs git2cl during 'make dist' / 'make distcheck'. For > non-autotools based projects you usually won't have a standard 'make > dist' so it would need to be added to whatever script is the equivalent. > >> Do you like that git2cl output? It seems rather ugly to me... > > Its the standard ancient GNU form for a ChangeLog. I have no opinion on > its aesthetics and I don't think it matters what format it has really. I think the format is indeed pretty ugly, can't we just do: git log v0.9.8..v0.9.9 > ChangeLog I've attached an example output of this on the iw package for example. Paul, does Debian packaging not care the format the ChangeLog is on? Luis
commit f8396b2454ece21a9db91ad592192b865522aa33 Author: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Date: Sat Jan 24 15:36:08 2009 +0100 bump version to 0.9.9 commit c1d44a6c68790adc45d4a047cdd3a93332210c17 Author: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Date: Sat Jan 24 15:35:30 2009 +0100 RTFM link for ap/master modes commit 0c099f3edd23586680e700dbe16a484b0d0568f9 Author: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Date: Sat Jan 24 15:15:46 2009 +0100 add commas to see also section commit 585e62cbc9fddaba274d948dd0e1ab78b18fc02f Author: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodrig...@atheros.com> Date: Fri Jan 23 15:02:38 2009 -0800 iw: fix typo, add few references This fixes a small typo s/ip/iw, and adds references to the other new wireless subsystem userspace applications/files. Lets also point users to the iw wiki as it has lots of good stuff. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodrig...@atheros.com> commit 45d543f0a65cd4a5ad461b88acee1749a5c78431 Author: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Jan 21 16:30:52 2009 +0100 include netlink/netlink.h also fixes the nl_handle vs. nl_sock issue that has been plaguing people trying to use libnl from git commit ee9cd9875412bbe0ab24c4f8acd25253ec1410c4 Author: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> Date: Sun Jan 18 18:13:54 2009 +0100 suppress flags on disabled channels