On 04/15/2013 09:05 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 07:43 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Richard Hughes wrote: >> >>> Is there any guidance as when to trim %changelog down to size? Some >>> packages have thousands of lines of spec file dating back over 15 >>> years which seem kinda redundant now we're using git. >> >> To me, common sense dictates that it's perfectly ok to trim the length of >> the changelog as long as items that are relevant to the current release are >> kept intact. Use your best judgement where that position lies. > > I wonder if there are legal issues involved as the %changelog also list > all the person that worked on that spec file. > As for all project, in case of licensing changes, you need to know all > the authors that ever contributed to the project. > But again, IANAL :)
I see no legal issues with trimming a %changelog. We don't use that as a commit tracking mechanism in any real way. :) ~tom == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
