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Bug 768278 - release tarball 0.17.5 contains empty ChangeLog
release tarball 0.17.5 contains empty ChangeLog
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libgdata
Classification: Platform
Component: General
0.17.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libgdata-maint
libgdata-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-07-01 12:50 UTC by Michael Biebl
Modified: 2016-07-12 12:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Michael Biebl 2016-07-01 12:50:31 UTC 
Hi,

the tarballs shipped at
https://download.gnome.org/sources/libgdata/0.17/libgdata-0.17.5.tar.xz
contains an empty ChangeLog.
The git log doesn't list anything in that regard, so I guess this happened by mistake.
Maybe the ChangeLog generation in Makefile.am is not safe regarding srcdir != builddir
Comment 1 Philip Withnall 2016-07-12 12:51:35 UTC 
Fixed by switching to AX_GENERATE_CHANGELOG. At least, `make -C /path/to/builddir dist` produces a tarball with a valid ChangeLog in it for me.

I’ll probably be making a new release soon due to the other bugs which have appeared with this release (various test failures). Watch this space.

Thanks for the report. :-)

commit 11b72839bf4b54140b14a563fd84dc6ae392d146
Author: Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Jul 12 13:37:45 2016 +0100

    build: Use AX_GENERATE_CHANGELOG to generate the changelog
    
    This should fix building the ChangeLog when srcdir ≠ builddir.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768278