Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Apr 17 13:04:44 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> said:
> Why does it have to be date based?
> Why not having a count based cutoff?
> Like last N entries.

Neither is definately the correct thing to do.

All changes starting with the most recent upstream release should stay,
as that tells you (or at least should tell you) the difference between
foo-1.2.3 (upstream) and foo-1.2.3-4.fc18 (apparently 4th release for
Fedora 18).

Automated rebuild entries could be be dropped as soon as the next build
is done.

Any CVE references should probably stay until there's a new upstream
release (no matter how old or how many).
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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