%changelog not in descending chronological order

[Kacper Kornet]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 06:38:10PM +0200, Jacek Konieczny 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?

So we have two solutions:

a) Switch to show committer dates in changelog. It should be possible to
show these dates should be in chronological order.

Drawback: for commits migrated from CVS this date is set to some
value =~ time of  cvs->git migration

b) Patch rpm in PLD to remove enforcing of chronological order in
changelog. The patch seems trivial.

I would go for b).

-- 
  Kacper