From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com>
On 03/12/2013 08:17 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> What is the point of the RPM changelog then?
RPM changelog is for packaging changes. Bodhi update notes are for the
user. They are not merely redundant copies of the same information.
I see both sides of this argument. When I have my admin hat on, I really
don't want to have to consult bodhi, which requires a net connection when
I could simply do an 'rpm -q --changelog foo'. However, with my dev hat
on, I can see the argument the other way. In my local packaging, my rpm
changelogs are a mixture. If V is bumped the changelog describes the
diffs between the new V and the old V. If R is bumped, the changelog most
likely describes something that changed in the spec only.
That's me and what I feel is proper (for local packaging) though. However,
I would strongly suggest that if Fedora policy is to have the rpm
changelog only cover R changes and not V changes, let's please amend this
bit to make it much more explicit and clear to the reader, perhaps even
providing the bodhi URL:
man rpm(8)
PACKAGE QUERY OPTIONS:
--changelog
Display change information for the package.
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John Florian