On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 21:46 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 15:46 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > Frankly speaking, the only situation I have found rpm.specs useful > > sofar, was to dig out the responsible maintainer of a package to get in > > direct contact to him. > > On the other hand, this is the very reason I have sometimes considered > leaving out my email address entirely from the specfile changelogs. I > cannot promise personal individual support for users of the packages I > maintain. Bugzillas and mailing lists are much better for that. > > Back to the original topic: I think it is ok to remove the changelogs > from the packages altogether provided that a equally easily accessible > and working replacement to "rpm -q --changelog" is provided. But I > don't have ideas how to implement that right now, sorry. May have a solution to that for you. Panu worked up a script using the xml metadata to be able to do simple queries of the metadata like you would with rpm -q repoquery --changelog yum worked for me. -sv
