Re: What is the real value of Release and %changelog metadata?

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On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 10:54, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
[...]
> I think the value of the %changelog for debugging problems on a host
> is overstated in general though. In most cases I find the entries are
> just too terse to be useful, especially when you have packages where
> the only changelog info is "rebased to version x.y.z", with the actual
> useful info being in the release notes provided by the upstream
> project.

That useful info is often included as ChangeLog or NEWS file in %doc
section of the RPM, so you often do have it locally.

Regards,
Dominik
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