On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:33:57AM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Warren Togami
<wtogami(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I often want to make corrections to previous changelog entries.
This is now allowed for in the draft, with the "obvious error" exception.
> I sometimes
> want to remove irrelevant changelog entries, usually only cases like
> "Rebuild for rawhide libfoo-1.2.3" when I have that spec in sync with
> previous Fedora/RHEL releases and that changelog entry is
> irrelevant/incorrect for other distros.
But those are, as you state, "other distros". Each branch of Fedora
(and arguably RHEL, but I have no influence in internal RHT guidelines
obviously) should have a unique spec file. To do otherwise is to
rewrite history. FESCo recently dealt with exactly this issue, and
took a quite dismal view on it. (though in that case it was a script
that was obliterating changelog entries).
Please provide a pointer to this issue. The issue that comes to my
mind[0] was mainly about reverting changes that other maintainers than
the owner performed on spec files.
Imho it is valid for a maintainer to mainly develop the spec file in
devel and use it for the other branches as well.
Regards
Till
[0]
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/298