On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, shirish शिरीष wrote: > It would be helpful if somebody has one of the 1996 packages snapshots > and can share how the changelogs were at that point of time. That > might give a bit of reference as to how things were and if there were > any changes between them and now.
http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libc/libc/ Will give you glibc 5, from 1998, but the packaging is from 1999. It already had separate changelogs. > Also the crucial question if whether this idea came in Debian first > and then flowed to other distributions or was it was first used in > Redhat and then came to Debian would be interesting in itself. Sorry, I have no idea about that. But it is such an obvious thing to do once you have "distro versions" (which RedHat *already had*), that I'd bet the dual changelogs came from whomever started with distro-specific versioning first. Take a look at early slackware, it is the oldest you can still find. http://futurist.se/gldt/ -- Henrique Holschuh
