Re: Rebuilds needed for Fedora 8

[Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:24 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On 8/22/07, Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com> wrote:
>         
>         This way 99% of the cases we should have a consistent
>         changelog.
> 
> Another way to ensure the changelog is consistent is to stop using it.
> Move them out of the spec for historical archives, and use the version
> control system.  Not writing changes twice = win. 
> Especially when most of them are on the level of "new upstream
> version" which are equivalent to comments in C like:
> /* Increment x */
> x = x+1;

The problem with using version control messages is then seeing silly
things like:
- fix typo in spec
- fix typo in spec again
- ok I am really silly today fix it again

Simo.