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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libffi: ChangeLog libffi-3.0.10_rc8.ebuild libffi-3.0.9.ebuild
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:45:34
Message-Id: 4E68C6D6.8030508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libffi: ChangeLog libffi-3.0.10_rc8.ebuild libffi-3.0.9.ebuild by Markos Chandras
1 On 8.9.2011 16.16, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 >
3 >>> (Consider my refusal to reply any more messages in this thread as
4 >>> an polite attempt of avoiding escalation and flame.)
5 >
6 >> Consider my email as a friendly and polite request to please change
7 >> your ChangeLog behaviour from now on.
8 >
9 >
10 > The changelog entry message is irrelevant in this case since the
11 > changelog already lists which files were removed ( -foo-1 -foo-2 ) so
12 > please don't make us restart the old discussion about changelogs which
13 > will lead us again to nasty and undesired results. Moreover I haven't
14 > seen you complaining about my Changelogs either ( I use a bare "^"
15 > when removing ebuilds ) so instead of recycling old threads, please
16 > lets move forward and deal with the auto-generated changelogs once and
17 > for all.
18 >
19
20 I usually read the Changelog entry before I look at what files have been
21 changed so the message is not irrelevant for me.
22
23 Regards,
24 Petteri