On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:50:35PM +0200, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just sent new yast2-installation into autobuild and one thing made
> me stop to think about our changes files:
> 
> yast2-installation-2.16.28.tar.bz2    size: 225750
> yast2-installation.changes            size: 213761
> 
> Is it really wort having 208 kB of changes for such package? Is anybody
> interested in it? In my opinion, users are interested in the changes
> that have been made since the last release or codebase change. Ancient
> changes are just filling-up the RPM database, that's all.
> 
> My proposal is to keep the changes file untouched but change the
> `make package` script to cut off
>   a.) changes that belong to some older release (e.g., 10.2 vs 10.3)
>   b.) changes that belong to some older codebase (e.g., 10.3 vs 11.0)
> 
> We can simply use the package VERSION which should be increased by one
> with every release (currently 2.16, next will be 2.17).
> 
> This would make our installation smaller, RPM faster and we would still
> keep our changes in SVN. The build service checks would have to be
> changed probably because they check for inconsistencies in changes files
> too.
> 
> What do you think of that?
> Any better idea?

Doesn't autobuild strip the changes file while building RPMs? If
not, it should go there so that every packages profits from it.

ciao Arvin
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