On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:20 +0200, Karsten Hopp wrote: > Mamoru Tasaka schrieb: > > Michael Schwendt wrote, at 05/25/2007 08:02 PM +9:00: > >> Some [or many?] packages in the collection contain really huge spec > >> %changelog sections, which contain entries that date back as far as > >> the middle 90's. > >> > >> It is not unusual that entries, which are several years old, have become > >> irrelevant or wrong or get lost among several dozen entries like > >> "rebuilt" > >> or "update to x.y.z". The changelogs however are included in the rpm > >> packages completely and also in web pages generated from them, e.g. in > >> koji or repoview. > >> > >> Do we have any guidelines about what to do with them and whether it > >> is permitted to strip the changelogs from time to time? (and if so, > >> whether to archive them anywhere other than in cvs?) > >> > >> Not a big issue, not at all, I'm just curious. ;o) > > > > Perhaps the approach by vim is preferable. Vim has > > /usr/share/doc/vim-common-7.0.235/Changelog.rpm for older > > changelog. > > > > Mamoru > > > > > > > ... and the last changelog you get with rpm -q --changelog points you to that > file: > - older changelogs available in Changelog.rpm In other words, you are proposing to use detached changelogs instead of inlined ones ... Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
