On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:32:36AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
Would you be opposed to moving all ChaneLogs from 2013 and earlier into a ChangeLog.old file, thus pruning the %changelog section in the glibc.spec file?
I can't see anyone using this actively in the rpm, but leaving it in a checked in file e.g. ChangeLog means we can look at it later. It solves the onerous problem that no matter what you search for in the file you're bound to find that word or text in the ChangeLog and that's getting annoying and old.
If nobody objects I'll prune the glibc.spec file and move the old data into a ChangeLog.old file.
I was confused for a moment about whether you meant the ChangeLog file in our sources or the %changelog section in the specfile; I assume you meant the latter. That information comes up in 'rpm -q --changelog glibc', so I am not sure if it's kosher to do so. You might want to check if it's allowed according to the Fedora packaging guidelines or even easier, ask on the fedora-packaging list.
Siddhesh