On 14/01/14 20:41, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I have some trivial cleanups I want to make to a package a maintain. > These cleanups are trivial enough that I don't think they're worth a > new build. Should I commit them to the master branch? If so, I can > imagine a couple of issues: > > - A provenpackager could kick off a rebuild for whatever reason (e.g. > dependency soname bump). That will (I think) inadvertently include my > changes. > - I need to think about whether to add a changelog entry or not. If > not, those changes might be included silently. If yes, then I need to > think about what to do about the revision number. > > The normal GIT approach would be to develop on another branch and to > merge when I want to build a new revision (the Fedora equivalent of > tagging a new release). Should Fedora provide branches like > master-devel, f20-devel, etc that store pending changes?
Committing spec changes without a subsequent build is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. When doing spec clean-up, I would normally bump the Release tag and add a changelog entry. This is essentially what happens when packages are being reviewed for inclusion in Fedora. -- Jamie Nguyen -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
