Re: Old changelog entries removal

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On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:39 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 01:12:10PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "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.
>
> Given that the RPM build is purging all changelogs older than 2 years
> in the generated binary RPMs, this commit reverting your specfile changelog
> purge seems particularly pointless. I wouldn't be surprised if whomever
> asked for this didn't realize it was culled from the binary RPM regardless.
>

It's not pointless. The full changelog is shipped in the spec file in
the SRPM. So the attribution is still preserved in the source
artifacts.

I would personally make the same request as well for anything I've got
a changelog entry for.



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