On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:56:10 -0400
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Please, no, don't do that. RPM is a standard, the changelog is
> > part of that. It would be pretty crappy to just declare we're
> > going to stop using RPM changelogs and bake some random new idea
> > into our distro's packaging tools instead.
> I agree with Adam here.
Well, except -- it doesn't come for free. I was just talking to David
Shea about something different and he mentioned that changelogs
comprise about 40% of RPM metadata, both on disk and in-memory for
every transaction.
How about we globally set:
%global _changelog_trimtime %(date +%s -d "1 year ago")
(or 6 months or whatever).
Then git still has the full changelog for anyone that cares, but all
the rpms have a trimmed changelog.
kevin