On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:36:27AM +0100, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > On Friday, January 10, 2020 5:36:46 PM CET Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > Do we want to drop release and changelog from our spec file? > > No. People continuously tend to forget that '%changelog' is for > end-users. Especially if some distributions already claim they can live > fine without %changelog... > > Unless product managers say that 'rpm -q --changelog' is not a thing > nowadays, we should at least _allow_ being "nice" to end users. So > whatever approach we use by default -- the maintainers still have to have > a chance to maintain %changelog manually.
rpm -q --changelog is a thing, which is why we're discussing the idea to remove the changelog from the *spec file* not from the (s)RPM. And yes I agree that whichever approach is designed, it should be made opt-in, if only to allow to gather feedback and improve the process. Pierre _______________________________________________ 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
