On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:54 PM Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> That makes it extra steps to see changelogs on a not-installed package.
> I do sometimes do "rpm -q --changelog -p foo.rpm" or "dnf changelog
foo"
> (for example, to see what is changed since my installed version).
> Converting to an installed file means I would have to extract the RPM
> (possibly after manually downloading) and find it under a different
> directory for every RPM - much less convenient.
A dnf plugin could be made which shows metadata like this from
src.fedoraproject.org or bodhi or some other source.
That's not helpful beyond Fedora, though. When it's forked into RHEL
or CentOS, that changelog history from Fedora is preserved today. RHEL
forks Fedora at the git level, so generated changelogs from Git will
still work, and since CentOS gets SRPM imports into its Dist-Git,
they'll be flattened into %changelog sections as appropriate. But if
we rely on a web service to get changelogs, we screw over that
particular transition path.
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