is the changelog used anywhere inside bloom?

Question

Based on the instructions on the release page here, I've run the following commands:

catkin_generate_changelog
catkin_tag_changelog
catkin_prepare_release
bloom-release foo --track hydro --rosdistro hydro

After performing the release, I noticed that the updates to the changelog had not been committed to my upstream repo by any script. I assume I can commit then now to the development branch, and that the changelog itself is not used by bloom?

Thanks!!

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Originally posted by piyushk on ROS Answers with karma: 2871 on 2013-07-10

Post score: 1

Answer 1

Bloom will take the changelog and populate the debian changelog. It won't break anything but you will not have all the information available for this release. It's probably not worth a new release.

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Originally posted by tfoote with karma: 58457 on 2013-07-10

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by piyushk on 2013-07-12:
@tfoote: Looks like you need to update your answer given recent failures on the build farm :).

Comment by tfoote on 2013-07-12:
This is a regression in bloom. It should be padding out empty changelogs if they aren't filled by the maintainers: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/bloom/issues/171

Comment by piyushk on 2013-07-12:
Ah understood. I'll pay attention to committing the changelog till bloom 0.4.3 comes out.