On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 01:12:10PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> writes: > > MM> Whether or not it's documented policy (and I can't remember or find > MM> anything either), many packages have the practice of trimming very > MM> old entries. > > You can't always do this. I tried to purge changelog entries from a > package older than 2010 and was not permitted to do so: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cyrus-imapd/c/4672136ce3276859bc1971075a87a30a47f9995b?branch=master > > All I could figure was that the person who originally developed the > packages back before 2006 had objected that their changelog entries had > been removed. There might even have been some kind of agreement between > them and Red Hat which of course isn't documented anywhere, and > shouldn't apply to Fedora anyway.
Given that the RPM build is purging all changelogs older than 2 years in the generated binary RPMs, this commit reverting your specfile changelog purge seems particularly pointless. I wouldn't be surprised if whomever asked for this didn't realize it was culled from the binary RPM regardless. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
