Michael Schwendt wrote:
Some [or many?] packages in the collection contain really huge spec
%changelog sections, which contain entries that date back as far as
the middle 90's.
It is not unusual that entries, which are several years old, have become
irrelevant or wrong or get lost among several dozen entries like "rebuilt"
or "update to x.y.z". The changelogs however are included in the rpm
packages completely and also in web pages generated from them, e.g. in
koji or repoview.
Do we have any guidelines about what to do with them and whether it
is permitted to strip the changelogs from time to time? (and if so,
whether to archive them anywhere other than in cvs?)
Not a big issue, not at all, I'm just curious. ;o)
I think it's useful to have 1-2 releases worth of entries. i.e., we are
entering into the dev cycle for F8, so F7 changes + F8 changes included.
I don't know, how about a %{name}.changelog for archived entries,
distributed via CVS?
A good example of this is Anaconda, I loaded the spec file by accident
on a slow link, and I'm sure the change log is about 5 times the size of
the actual spec file bits and bobs.
N.J.