Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
>
> > Arbitrarily deciding to remove all changelog entries older than 1
> > year is stupid. For some packages you'll end up with one entry (or
> > none!) and for some packages you probably won't make a dent
> > (kernel?).
;-)
> It seems reasonable to me, as a simple starting point, to ask
> maintainers to trim changelogs to information that is relevant to that
> %{VERSION}. (maybe last 2 versions). Ideally that changelog would
> contain documentation for all patches still carried, and go back to the
> changelog entry that bumped the version (or 2). Perhaps if that version
> bump caused patches to be removed, that should also be in the changelog,
> with rationale ("patch FOO removed, now upstream").
Problem is that I've got changelog entries like:
- Update to new version
- Carry patch NN forward
- Fix SPEC for guidelines
- New/changed configuration file XYZ
- ...
You can't just keep it all or none, and editing out "now uninteresting
bits" and keeping all elsewhere makes the exercise rather pointless IMHO.
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