Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 04/19/2013 06:57 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 04/19/2013 12:25 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:17:09AM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
>>> On 04/18/2013 11:34 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>> %global _changelog_trimtime %(date +%s -d "1 year ago")
>>>
>>> If that actually works, we could make fedpkg set it.
>>
>> I have just tested this by adding it to a random package that I
>> maintain, and it appears to work.
>>
>> The changelog in the RPM I just built is trimmed to 1 year, even
>> though the spec file contains a much longer changelog.
>>
>> One possible problem -- maybe it's not -- is that the generated
>> .src.rpm changelog also gets truncated, but the spec file inside is
>> intact.
>
> If the spec file is intact, that should be sufficient. I don't think
> people are regularly querying changelog info from SRPMs.

Last time, we've had this kind of discussions, people were claiming they 
were querying changelogs from _binary_ rpms and from installed rpms (rpm 
-q --changelog)

Ralf