radical suggestion for fc4 release
Dariusz J. Garbowski
thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 1 00:19:57 UTC 2005
On 01/31/2005 10:43 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> how about if we kill all rpm spec file changelog entries OLDER than 2
>>> years.
>>>
>>> they'll still live on in older srpms and rpms but it'd be a useful
>>> reduction and it would make the specfiles that much smaller, along with
>>> the rpm headers.
>>
>> +1
>
> In fact, it's silly to carry changelogs in packages, since packaging
> changes are
> far more easily read from e-mail, or from a web-site, or just about any
> other
> way than
> rpm -q --changelog pkg
Hmmm... I must be different then ;-)
Seriously, recently I used this command to find out whhat's changed in
NetworkManager when apt decided to grab bind with it.
[And that was also when I decided to 'rpm -e NetworkManager' and manage
my net manually (it's simple enough: no wireless, no
plugging/unplugging, just two ethernet cards and dhcp).]
> With no offense whatsoever to anyone, I humbly submit that the comments in
> the changelog are of rather limited use to any non-redhat developer, and
> are
> totally useless to any end-user.
Well, I consider myself mostly end-user...
> So perhaps changelogs should be nuked entirely, and handled ouside of
> package content, instead.
Perhaps. Just a note that it *may* sometimes be useful even to end-user.
Regards,
Dariusz
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