Pavel Raiskup wrote:
Questionnaire right at the beginning, so if you tl;dr, you don't
miss it:
https://forms.gle/Jgr13vtRkiUwLb6W6
The questionnaire itself is short, but understanding all the proposals
is considerable work. That's where TL;DR will happen.
Let's stop requiring Release bumps for each build. And let's
put an
additional tag into Release, like proposed in [4]:
"Release: 1%{?dist}%{?buildtag}"
... and let the build-system to put there an artificial (but increasing for
subsequent build IDs) value.
I am of course in favor of this, as I've already suggested it myself.
Or alternatively, teach the build-system to enhance
%dist in a similar fashion, as suggested in [5].
That would also work technically, although it would turn the name
"dist" into a misnomer.
%changelog
* This package doesn't provide changelog metadata, check it online
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/<name>/commits/<last_commit>
To the extent that users read changelogs at all, I think they would be
more interested in the upstream changelog than in the Fedora Git
changelog.
Side question: Is it really useful to put "Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_XX_Mass_Rebuild" into changelogs?
I don't see any use for those entries. There is already a build
timestamp in the package metadata.
Björn Persson