%changelog not in descending chronological order

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Jul 16, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:

> 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?
> 

Yes loss of "legacy compatibility" would hurt with unordered entries.

Nothing would break if all change log entries were ripped out either.

(aside)
The ordering constraint was likely a quick hack to detect
time issues on an alpha miata (knowing almost all of RPM's hysteria).

73 de Jeff
> Greets,
>        Jacek
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