Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 16 10:06:58 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:00:00AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I believe we've had this discussion before but I don't have a link handy.  I
> think that people said they liked historical information to know when a bug,
> feature, or fix might have entered into a package (where people being end
> users, people who are primarily users, not packagers, even packagers who are
> looking at packagest hat they don't own).  However, people did seem to agree
> that there was a cutoff somewhere in the past where they no longer cared.

It's handy to have it on the system going back the last few updates. Beyond
that, I sometimes *do* care going back beyond that, but wouldn't mind the
history archived somewhere (and somewhere more accessible than deep within
the git history). Losing it completely would be a real shame.




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