RFC: split changelog out of spec

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Mon Aug 18 17:52:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:43:49PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com> wrote:
> > We could also, if so desired, install the split-out changelog as a %doc
> > file, the thought being that not everyone knows to look at 'rpm -q
> > --changelog' output or look in the srpm/cvs/etc to see what's changed.
> 
> This would just confuse user and is inconsistent with the rest of the distro...

I presume the rpm command would still work, so I would see no harm
in adding the changelog as a %doc (if/when it is broken-out from the
spec file).

John
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