On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
I was fairly confident we could extract and build this from the changelog's of released packages, but thats not going to happen since they are not very consistend and dont even go back to the earlier releases. eg in 5.[0123] quite a few pkgs dont carry this metadata at all.
So, short of someone finding a way to get this info; sitting down and typing it all up, it looks hard to get going.
The way to get the info is to use the package VCS check-ins, not %changelog from *.spec or --queryformat. There are too many issues with encoding and "bloat removal" filtering for package/spec extraction to be anything other than a chore.
With C6 however, all pkgs so far seem to have this metadata in the changelog's. So its looking a lot better.
What really should be done is rip _ALL_ of %changelog everywhere and just set up a browser onto git/svn package repositories hosted on a server where it might be useful for many users and tools. But that's likely a minority heretical contrarian opinion of mine alone.
hth
73 de Jeff