[Bash-completion-devel] New bash-completion upstream, Fedora patches
David Paleino
d.paleino at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 21:04:28 UTC 2009
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:58:43 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > We're still in a moment where bash-completion is
> > a "Debian-native" package, but we'll soon (I hope) split the tarball from
> > the Debian packaging, so we could have a sane ChangeLog in ./ .
>
> Or just something like NEWS which contains higher level changes; people
> interested in more details could just check the bzr logs?
Sure, but for the moment we just want to have bash-completion resuscitated from
old upstream's abandonment ;)
> Anyway that would be welcome but as long as the changes are recorded
> somewhere and delivered to end users in understandable form, I don't think
> it's that crucial. I'm currently just using the Debian tarball and packaging
> debian/changelog in the Fedora package I pushed to the build system today - I
> don't think people will find the Debian specific things in it too
> overwhelming. rpm package specific changes of version updates etc go
> to %changelog in bash-completion.spec (the one in Fedora, not the one
> included in bash-completion although I'll have a look if there's something I
> should add to it from the Fedora one).
ACK.
> But regarding missing files, I suppose a copy of
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt is something that should be shipped
> in the tarball as soon as possible (probably as COPYING).
I'll note that for the next release, thank you.
> > [0] Debian uses (Closes: #nnnnn), Ubuntu (LP: #nnnnn), it would be nice if
> > you used something like (Fedora: #nnnn) or, if you have a particular name
> > of your bugtracker, some abbreviation (if it was "Fedora BugZilla", "FBZ:
> > #nnnn" would be pretty fine to me)
>
> In other upstream projects I've usually used a full URL which looks
> like "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/nnnnnn" . As far as I know there's
> no "official" abbreviation for it but I suppose the most often seen one
> is "rhbz". If you don't like the full URL, my 2nd preferred one would be
> (RHBZ: #nnnnnn). Let me know what you think.
RHBZ is fine with me.
Kindly,
David
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