On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 03:49 +0000, Christopher wrote: >> 2. Should I preserve the entire changelog in the SPEC? Or should I >> roll it >> over when I update to the latest upstream? It seems the changelog >> could >> easily become the bulk of a package if everything is preserved, and >> I'd >> think git would suffice for anything older than the last few rebases >> onto >> latest upstream. > > This is indeed annoying. In most packages, the changelog is almost the > entire spec file. Some packagers eventually delete old changelog > entries, most don't. SUSE has a %changelog RPM macro that fixes this by > moving the changelog into a .changes file stored in the same directory. > Every SUSE package uses it. Probably we should too? There's also an option which trims the installed size to a max amount (not sure what it is off hand) which is probably useful, not sure what a changes file provides over say a git change log for the package, is it shipped in the rpm, or is it just for reference? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
