Guidelines for huge spec changelogs?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri May 25 14:36:17 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 10:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2007 10:29:12 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > In other words, you are proposing to use detached changelogs instead of
> > inlined ones ...
>
> For archived changelogs. Really, do you need all the changelogs _in_ the
> package from the late 90s?
No, actually, I never understood the usefulness of inlined changelogs,
neither in VCS's (e.g. CVS's $Log$) nor in rpm.specs.
If one insists on inlined changelogs, I don't see any problems in
manually pruning them to "usable shape". It's what I've been doing with
my packages.
Ralf
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