Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:51:05PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On 19/04/13 10:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> >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)
> 
> I do that. All the time. Sometimes going back a long, long time.
> 
> I could certainly work around the limitation if the binary RPM
> changelogs were cut off, but it would require me to change, if anyone
> cares.

Is there a cutoff date that would cover maybe 90% of your use cases?  I
think that one year would be too short for my use cases as well.  But there
are packages in the distro with changelogs going back to the RHL/fedora.us
days and I personally never go back even half that far.  If we chose a date
two years or three years or even four years in the past, it might be a
reasonable compromise for everyone.

-Toshio
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