Eric Sandeen <sandeen(a)redhat.com> 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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