On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:56:10 -0400
Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Please, no, don't do that. RPM is a standard, the changelog is
> > > part of that. It would be pretty crappy to just declare we're
> > > going to stop using RPM changelogs and bake some random new idea
> > > into our distro's packaging tools instead.  
> > I agree with Adam here.  
> 
> Well, except -- it doesn't come for free. I was just talking to David
> Shea about something different and he mentioned that changelogs
> comprise about 40% of RPM metadata, both on disk and in-memory for
> every transaction.

How about we globally set: 

%global _changelog_trimtime %(date +%s -d "1 year ago")

(or 6 months or whatever). 

Then git still has the full changelog for anyone that cares, but all
the rpms have a trimmed changelog. 

kevin

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