Guidelines for huge spec changelogs?

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Am Freitag, den 25.05.2007, 10:29 -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 10:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Friday 25 May 2007 10:29:12 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > In other words, you are proposing to use detached changelogs instead of
> > > inlined ones ...
> > 
> > For archived changelogs.  Really, do you need all the changelogs _in_ the 
> > package from the late 90s?
> 
> I would personally prefer a traditional ChangeLog in cvs. 
> Of course, we still want rpm -q --changelog to tell you about the most
> recent changes...
> 

If there is a standard place for the archived changelogs, why can't rpm
-q --changelog silently go and look there?