Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 13:17:16 UTC 2013


At the moment, my best judgment is "trim anything older than one year"
and that's what I've been doing to my packages. Thanks for the sanity
check.

Richard

On 15 April 2013 13:43, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>
>> Is there any guidance as when to trim %changelog down to size? Some
>> packages have thousands of lines of spec file dating back over 15
>> years which seem kinda redundant now we're using git.
>
> To me, common sense dictates that it's perfectly ok to trim the length of
> the changelog as long as items that are relevant to the current release are
> kept intact.  Use your best judgement where that position lies.
>
> -- rex
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