>>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: MM> Whether or not it's documented policy (and I can't remember or find MM> anything either), many packages have the practice of trimming very MM> old entries. You can't always do this. I tried to purge changelog entries from a package older than 2010 and was not permitted to do so: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cyrus-imapd/c/4672136ce3276859bc1971075a87a30a47f9995b?branch=master All I could figure was that the person who originally developed the packages back before 2006 had objected that their changelog entries had been removed. There might even have been some kind of agreement between them and Red Hat which of course isn't documented anywhere, and shouldn't apply to Fedora anyway. So I'd certainly love it if there was a distro-wide policy about this, with a requirement that weird exceptional cases like this be documented publicly. There is also valid discussion to be had about giving credit, and whether changelog entries are a valid way of accomplishing that. (I would argue that they aren't and that the SCM history should be sufficient, but I personally don't care if my name is in the credits or not.) - J< _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
