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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:55:11 Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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>> Now that I've said I'm tired of this thread, let me add to it. I'd like |
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>> to add one more point, namely: |
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>> * Please explain in the ChangeLog what you are doing and why. In |
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>> this case, if I look at kdelibs for example, what I see is "Version bump |
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>> to KDE 4.0.1" which looks pretty harmless. A couple lines explaining |
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>> that it is package.masked because it doesn't actually work might have |
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>> been helpful. |
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> Do you really think that should go into the ChangeLog of all 208 packages? |
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> Personally I would have thought the package.mask message would be |
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> sufficient... |
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considering you can do the following: |
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$ echangelog "Version bump to KDE 4.0.1. This is a major version change, |
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please review package.mask for details." |
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and for the other 207 packages you do |
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$ !echan |
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it sounds more like laziness on the part of the KDE team. |
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