[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Extend %changelog to accept filename. (#393)

[Panu Matilainen]

Splitting spec into multiple pieces (whether %include or otherwise) tends to have all sorts of downsides, especially because it breaks long-standing expectations of specs being standalone entities. I'm not actually opposed to adding %changelog -f but I'm also not convinved it's be best way to deal with pulling changelogs from scm, because then you'd still need the silly one-liners in each spec. Yes you can automate that, but then you might just as well automate slapping the changelog itself at the tail of the spec, so that the spec ending up in src.rpm's remains standalone and by looking at the srpm you don't actually know the changelog came from outside. Which is probably what you'd want if you were to rebuild a distro package locally.

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