Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

[Florian Festi]

On 04/17/2013 12:18 PM, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 12:10 +0900, Florian Festi wrote:
>> For limiting the change log entries in the binary packages
>> %_changelog_trimtime can be used that take a unix time stamp as an
>> integer value. This way the whole history is still available in the spec
>> file.
> 
> Could redhat-rpm-config set that automatically, for example to the
> release date of Fedora N-1?

>From a technical POV: Yes, very easily.

Figuring out if this really is a good idea and convincing all necessary
Fedora committees is left as an exercise for the reader.

Florian