| 1 |
On 11/1/15 7:16 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
| 2 |
> Ahoi, |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> I'm getting mildly very irritated with the lack of easily accessible |
| 5 |
> ChangeLogs for our packages. |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> Apparently updating them stopped some time in August, so now there are |
| 8 |
> some outdated ChangeLogs that don't really serve any purpose, and the |
| 9 |
> easiest way for users to figure out why something changed is to yell at |
| 10 |
> the clumsy gitweb.g.o interface. So instead of grep we now need lots of |
| 11 |
> patience. |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> This does not look reasonable to me. |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> Can we please either properly remove ChangeLogs and tell people to not |
| 16 |
> be curious about changes, or make them useful again? |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> Thanks, |
| 19 |
> |
| 20 |
> A Gentoo User. |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
I don't have strong feelings about this, but I'm happy with `git log` to |
| 23 |
tell me what's going on with packages. I would be okay with the |
| 24 |
ChangeLog files just being archived and removed. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
| 28 |
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
| 29 |
E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
| 30 |
GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA |
| 31 |
GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA |
Archives