%changelog not in descending chronological order

Jacek Konieczny jajcus at jajcus.net
Mon Jul 16 18:38:10 CEST 2012


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:16:02PM -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> 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.

I wonder if RPM really needs to enforce the changelog order. Would it
really hurt if it just allowed building a package with such seemingly
unordered entries? Will anything break if we just disable the test?

Greets,
        Jacek


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