Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:03:34 -0500
Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Toshio Kuratomi
> <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.
> 

createrepo truncates the changelogs in the repodata to some limit - I
forget what it is set to in koji.

Istr that something like that was made an option in rpm, too.

-sv