On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:35 AM Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de> wrote:

On 10/23/2016 04:09 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 03:49 +0000, Christopher wrote:
>> 2. Should I preserve the entire changelog in the SPEC? Or should I
>> roll it
>> over when I update to the latest upstream? It seems the changelog
>> could
>> easily become the bulk of a package if everything is preserved, and
>> I'd
>> think git would suffice for anything older than the last few rebases
>> onto
>> latest upstream.
>
> This is indeed annoying. In most packages, the changelog is almost the
> entire spec file. Some packagers eventually delete old changelog
> entries, most don't.
Our rules is "leave it to the packager's personal preference" and to
"keep what's important".

I'm curious, what *IS* important? Who are the consumers of this information? git history seems to suffice for maintainers (and, is probably far more useful than the changelog). For others, I'd think that the history since the last rebase would be useful. The history of the packaging prior to that seems unrelated to what is presently packaged and not very useful.