radical suggestion for fc4 release

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Wed Feb 2 20:57:22 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:13 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > Then the question is: why is the same changelog, i.e. the changelog of
> > sub packages with the same source package, stored for each package
> > individually? It could be stored once and be referenced from each sub
> > package. It gets deleted once all references on it vanish.
> 
> People might be able to install only one of the sub-packages.

Um, I expressed myself not clearly. Of course the package files all
contain the changelog, the normalization would only happen on the RPM DB
level.

Nils
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