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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:35:01
Message-Id: 4EA90980.8040402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo by Bruno
1 On 10/26/11 19:33, Bruno wrote:
2 > In order to not bloat the tree I would like to see old entries purged
3 > when there are more than 25-50 of them, especially if they refer to
4 > ebuilds gone since more than 3-6 months.
5
6 One thing to remember:
7
8 Even if old ebuilds are gone in the tree already, they still may be
9 installed on users systems. As a result, 'emerge --changelog' searches
10 for their addition-entries in ChangeLog.
11
12 So when purging ChangeLog's really becomes necessary, we might need to
13 keep the addition-entries back to until a once-been-stable ebuild was
14 superseded by another stable ebuild more than 1 year ago - or sth. similar.
15
16 my 0.02 [€$?]
17
18 /haubi/
19 --
20 Michael Haubenwallner
21 Gentoo on a different level