Jeff Johnson wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
how about if we kill all rpm spec file changelog entries OLDER than 2 years.
they'll still live on in older srpms and rpms but it'd be a useful reduction and it would make the specfiles that much smaller, along with the rpm headers.
+1
In fact, it's silly to carry changelogs in packages, since packaging changes are
far more easily read from e-mail, or from a web-site, or just about any other
way than
rpm -q --changelog pkg
Hmmm... I must be different then ;-)
Seriously, recently I used this command to find out whhat's changed in NetworkManager when apt decided to grab bind with it.
[And that was also when I decided to 'rpm -e NetworkManager' and manage my net manually (it's simple enough: no wireless, no plugging/unplugging, just two ethernet cards and dhcp).]
With no offense whatsoever to anyone, I humbly submit that the comments in
the changelog are of rather limited use to any non-redhat developer, and are
totally useless to any end-user.
Well, I consider myself mostly end-user...
So perhaps changelogs should be nuked entirely, and handled ouside of package content, instead.
Perhaps. Just a note that it *may* sometimes be useful even to end-user.
Regards, Dariusz
