>> 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. Yes! This was the parameter I couldn't remember above. I think this makes sense. The full spec changelog is then kept in dist-git and just trimmed as part of the build process. No loss and it's uniform. Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
