On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:56:10 -0400 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > Please, no, don't do that. RPM is a standard, the changelog is > > > part of that. It would be pretty crappy to just declare we're > > > going to stop using RPM changelogs and bake some random new idea > > > into our distro's packaging tools instead. > > I agree with Adam here. > > Well, except -- it doesn't come for free. I was just talking to David > Shea about something different and he mentioned that changelogs > comprise about 40% of RPM metadata, both on disk and in-memory for > every transaction. How about we globally set: %global _changelog_trimtime %(date +%s -d "1 year ago") (or 6 months or whatever). Then git still has the full changelog for anyone that cares, but all the rpms have a trimmed changelog. kevin
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