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From: "Мисбах-Соловьёв Вадим" <mva@×××.name>
To: "gentoo-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:34:13
Message-Id: 1342001446381239@web1j.yandex.ru
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog by Patrick Lauer
1 And why don't just only generate them on rsync mirrors, but remove them from git repo (like was planned initially, AFAIRC)?
2
3 01.11.2015, 18:17, "Patrick Lauer" <patrick@g.o>:
4 > Ahoi,
5 >
6 > I'm getting mildly very irritated with the lack of easily accessible
7 > ChangeLogs for our packages.
8 >
9 > Apparently updating them stopped some time in August, so now there are
10 > some outdated ChangeLogs that don't really serve any purpose, and the
11 > easiest way for users to figure out why something changed is to yell at
12 > the clumsy gitweb.g.o interface. So instead of grep we now need lots of
13 > patience.
14 >
15 > This does not look reasonable to me.
16 >
17 > Can we please either properly remove ChangeLogs and tell people to not
18 > be curious about changes, or make them useful again?
19 >
20 > Thanks,
21 >
22 > A Gentoo User.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>