radical suggestion for fc4 release

[Jeff Johnson]

Nils Philippsen wrote:

>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.
>

Which cannot happen, because immutable header regions contain changelogs,
and the blob is signature and/or digest verified.

73 de Jeff