> Description of problem:> Well it sounds like it is less 
> likely to happen in the rpmbuild level
> and it would significantly trim the other.xml data size.

Hint: No RFE, no fix.

It would be trivial to teach rpmbuild a macro to truncate at either N
or timestamp, with default behavior off

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Per mailing list discussion, could an option to truncate %changelog's,
either (1) prior to a date, or (2) prior to the Nth entry, please be
added and documented.

-- Thanks

-- Russ Herrold