I meant to send this to fedora-extras list, not fedora-devel list, sorry

Joost

Joost Soeterbroek wrote:

Hi,

I have a question regarding Changelog entries in spec files. When packaging for a new upstream version of a given package you have to deal with 2 different changelog informations:

1. upstream/source specific changelog information
2. spec file/packager specific changelog information

I am unsure how best to deal with both of these. The FE guidelines regarding Changelogs in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines only mentions spec file specific changelog info, but says nothing about upstream. I do think it is relevant to include upstream changelog also.

As an example, I have just bumped the heartbeat package in Fedora Extras from 2.0.4-2 to 2.0.5-1. I ended up using a combination of minuses for the package specific changelog entries and indented plusses for the upstream changelog which seemed acceptable to rpmlint, as in:

%changelog

• Date Name Packager

• package changelog
  • upstream changelog

Example for heartbeat package:

%changelog

• Thu Apr 27 2006 Joost Soeterbroek fedora@soeterbroek.com - 2.0.5-1

• upstream version 2.0.5
• removed patch2 - ownership of /heartbeat/crm/cib.xml is no longer set in cts/CM_LinuxHAv2.py.in
  • Version 2.0.5 - significant bug fixes and a few feature deficits fixed
  • various portability fixes
  • enable GUI to run with pygtk 2.4
  • significant GUI improvements and speedups

Comments,ideas?

Joost fedora@soeterbroek.com