On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:39 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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. >
It's not pointless. The full changelog is shipped in the spec file in the SRPM. So the attribution is still preserved in the source artifacts. I would personally make the same request as well for anything I've got a changelog entry for. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
