radical suggestion for fc4 release

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Feb 2 13:15:33 UTC 2005


Florian La Roche wrote:
>>I'm talking about deleting changelog entries OLDER than a certain point.
> 
> 
> I think this is a reasonable request. Delete everything older than 2/3 years
> from being copied into binary rpm packages. Otherwise we add this as additional
> overhead to each package maintainer to remove old lines and move them to some
> "history file" within the src.rpm.
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Florian La Roche
> 

I would say, that rpm can strip everything but the last, say ten, entries from 
the binary rpms.




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