Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 12:30 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 12:19 PM, drago01 wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> >> On 04/17/2013 12:03 PM, drago01 wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Mathieu Bridon
> >>> <bochecha at fedoraproject.org> 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?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Why does it have to be date based?
> >>> Why not having a count based cutoff?
> >>> Like last N entries.
> >>
> >> Ask yourself what changelogs are serve for and you'll find the answer.
> >>
> >> It's questions such as:
> >> - When did a change make it into a package?
> >
> > This is available in the git repo.
> 
> Jesus Christ - The git repos are not available to ordinary users,

They are publicly and anonymously available.

However, they are not available offline, whereas "rpm -q --changelog"
is.


-- 
Mathieu