[Mageia-dev] Changelog entries - why not delimited by release/build?

Fri Dec 21 17:28:34 CET 2012

Hi *,
+
+I wondered about this for quite some time.. When you view the
+changelog when updating your system, it is very hard to see what
+actually did change in that new release.
+
+For example the current cups update:
+Version available: 1.5.4-1.1.mga2
+currently installed: 1.5.4-1.mga2
+
+Changelog:
+       * So 16 Dez 2012 13:00:00 CET oden <oden> 1.5.4-1.1.mga2
+
+        + Revision: 331722
+        - P103: attempt to fix #8318 (some usb printers stopped working)
+        - 1.5.4
+        - sync patches and some changes from cauldron
+        - P102: security fix for CVE-2012-5519 (upstream, redhat)
+        - merge spec file changes from fedora to deal with the new
+cups-files.conf file
+
+          + guillomovitch <guillomovitch>
+            - add upstream patches to fix #4673
+
+          + tmb <tmb>
+            - Require rpm-helper >= 0.24.8-1 for systemd support
+
+        * Fr 27 Apr 2012 14:00:00 CEST tmb <tmb> 1.5.2-4.mga2
+
+        + Revision: 233546
+[....]
+
+So what did actually change between 1.5.4-1.mga2 to 1.5.4-1.1.mga2?
+
+This time there is a hint about a major version bump in an update, so
+I can only assume the change is only "P103: attempt to fix #8318 (some
+usb printers stopped working)"
+(what does P# stand for btw? Is there a list of annotations used in changelogs?)
+
+Why aren't changelogs separated by actual release?
+
+ciao
+Christian
+