On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:37:31AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> said:
> > Or just add some RPM metadata tags to record the upstream SCM type + URL +
> > branch / release tag, etc. The user can thus easily find the upstream
> > full commit logs corresponding to the pacakge.
> 
> IMHO that is only good when the Fedora package is nothing but the
> upstream code, built with defaults.  As soon as Fedora needs to add a
> patch and/or systemd unit(s), change options, etc., there should be a
> Fedora changelog.

I doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with RPM changelogs.

I think having a record of upstream SCM would be useful regardless. Many
times when submitting patches to Fedora packages, I've been told to send
my patch to upstream instead....which means trying to figure out where
that upstream is for this given RPM.

Regards,
Daniel
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