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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:23:14
Message-Id: 201111031122.17076.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 >
3 > Again for 'emerge --changelog':
4 >
5 > As we do have the "$delay before breaking old" period, usually with
6 > $delay="1 year": Should we also apply this $delay to the output of above
7 > command?
8 >
9 > If yes, what I can think of ATM is:
10 > * Do that first splitting in January 2012 (in less than 2 months).
11 > * Have PM search in the old ChangeLogs if necessary.
12 >
13 > The latter would also allow for completely emptying current ChangeLog each
14 > January by moving that to ChangeLog-$lastyear.
15 >
16
17 Makes all perfect sense... however I suggest to agree on a general scheme and
18 go ahead manually first if implementation and/or discussion of its details or
19 planned features is lingering...
20
21 As opposed to EAPI features, this here is one of the cases where "availability
22 of an implementation" means "I'm here and can do it quickly".
23
24 --
25
26 Andreas K. Huettel
27 Gentoo Linux developer
28 dilfridge@g.o
29 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>