Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

Vít Ondruch vondruch at redhat.com
Mon Apr 15 16:07:02 UTC 2013


Dne 15.4.2013 18:03, Richard Shaw napsal(a):
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com 
> <mailto:a.badger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     If I remember, I tend to trim off changelog entries that are more
>     than two
>     years old once a year for packages that I own.  Two years is twice the
>     length of a Fedora EOL cycle and since it grows to three years
>     during the
>     interim, that seems a reasonable distance in the past for people
>     trying to
>     get a quick glimpse of when something might have changed.
>
>
> Would it be difficult to have some part of the build process check to 
> see if there's dates older than 2-3 years and report it somewhere? 
> Preferably somewhere where it will get noticed, but not be obtrusive.

Not sure if the age of entry is the only metrics which should be used. 
What if there was no change in last 3 years? Then we will have just one 
changelog entry? Just thinking loud ...

Vít
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