spec file changes: removing Release: and %changelog

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Mar 5 18:11:32 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:03 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've spent a little bit of time on the shuttle to/from work hacking on
> Makefile.common.  The general idea is to remove the Release: and %
> changelog fields from spec files, and have them generated automatically.

Changelog I might buy into, but Release? There are too many complicated
cases (Pre/Post immediately spring to mind) to automatically do this.
Also, we'd be forcing a hardcoded dist tag here. 

-1.

~spot




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