radical suggestion for fc4 release

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 23:07:38 UTC 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:58:26 +0100, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:43:32PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> > So perhaps changelogs should be nuked entirely, and handled ouside of
> > package content, instead.
> 
> Why not just removing the changelog from the rpm header and having them
> only accessible via the spec file in the src.rpm.  There it is useful
> for packagers (inside and outside RH) and doesn't bother "normal users".

and prevents duplication of the changelog across all the binary
subpackages from the same srpm, which Féliciano Matias brings up in
this thread.  Hmmm.... i think i like this.

-jef




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