changelogs in packages and space use

Robert Scheck robert at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 31 10:41:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I'd like to see all changelog entries remain that are related to patches
> still carried in the src.rpm - and not thrown away just because that
> patch was added > 1 year ago.  Much harder to automate, though... If
> there's a policy that says I can trim my own changelogs with that
> criteria, I'll gladly do it.  (Maybe the automated trimmer could only
> nuke old changelog entries if the changelog is above a certain size
> threshold?)

+1 -- please keep complete %changelog in the spec file itself.


Greetings,
  Robert




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