Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:51:05PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On 19/04/13 10:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>> >Last time, we've had this kind of discussions, people were claiming they
>> >were querying changelogs from _binary_ rpms and from installed rpms (rpm
>> >-q --changelog)
>>
>> I do that. All the time. Sometimes going back a long, long time.
>>
>> I could certainly work around the limitation if the binary RPM
>> changelogs were cut off, but it would require me to change, if anyone
>> cares.
>
> Is there a cutoff date that would cover maybe 90% of your use cases?  I
> think that one year would be too short for my use cases as well.  But there
> are packages in the distro with changelogs going back to the RHL/fedora.us
> days and I personally never go back even half that far.  If we chose a date
> two years or three years or even four years in the past, it might be a
> reasonable compromise for everyone.


I think about 18 months is useful, they do take up a surprisingly
large amount of space if you've got a small device like a XO-1.

Peter