%changelog not in descending chronological order

Jeffrey Johnson n3npq at me.com
Thu Jul 12 21:16:02 CEST 2012


On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Kacper Kornet <draenog at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> 
>> That can be because 'git rev-list', used to generate the changelog,
>> returns the commits ordered by commit date and not the AuthorDate
> 

Doing qsort(3) on RPMTAG_CHANGELOG* in rpmbuild isn't too hard, might be
easier than trying to figure out how to trick up git sewage.

Its likely worth the modest additional effort to run change log
text through iconv(3) and avoid encoding configuration issues.

hth

73 de Jeff



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