Script to update release and changelog?

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 09 February 2008, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> orion at cora.nwra.com wrote:
> > Is there a script posted somewhere for automatically bumping the release
> > and adding a line to %changelog?  Perhaps we could get integrated into
> > Makefile.common?
> >
> > make bumprel COMMENT="Rebuild for gcc 4.3"
>
> Adding that line by hand is surely trivial, and a %changelog that just
> records automatically generated (probably trivial) events isn't any real
> use IMHO. Perhaps make rpmlint complain if there is no entry for the
> version at hand?

It already does, with no-version-in-last-changelog or 
incoherent-version-in-changelog depending on the case.

For some reason unknown to me it did not do those checks for source rpms, but 
I've just changed that in upstream svn.