On Jan 31, 2005, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:58:26 +0100, Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:43:32PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> >> > So perhaps changelogs should be nuked entirely, and handled ouside of >> > package content, instead. >> >> Why not just removing the changelog from the rpm header and having them >> only accessible via the spec file in the src.rpm. There it is useful >> for packagers (inside and outside RH) and doesn't bother "normal users". > and prevents duplication of the changelog across all the binary > subpackages from the same srpm, which Féliciano Matias brings up in > this thread. Hmmm.... i think i like this. And if the metadata generator could somehow easily extract the changelog from the srpm and provide it in a separately-downloadable file, we could still have a simple command-line tool to get to the same info. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
