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On Thursday 15 May 2003 03:20, Weeve wrote: |
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> Hi everybody, |
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> Not attempting to stir up a hornets' nest but I was just wondering when |
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> the ChangeLog format changed (in regards to echangelog) and the reasoning |
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> behind it. |
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I hope this thread will end with this reply of mine, this time around :-) |
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There is the "old"/standard changelog format: every new entry goes on top. |
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This is _the same format_ used today, it is the only one ever officially |
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approved policy-wise, and echangelog now uses it. |
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At some point people suggested using a "new" format where a new entry goes |
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under its version's * line. Some people assumed this was the new ratified |
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format and began using it; echangelog was written (or updated) to use it. |
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Then drobbins stepped in and clarified that the new format wasn't official and |
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made everyone go back to the old one. However echangelog continued to use the |
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"new" format for a long time. Eventually it was changed back to the old, |
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correct format. |
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So that the official format _never changed_. People who've been using it were |
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mistaken about the policy, in many cases because of echangelog's behavior. |
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Hopefully that's rectified now. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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