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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:02:08
Message-Id: 4E7774CC.8010906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs by Fabian Groffen
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4 On 09/19/11 19:51, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 >>
6 >> Yes a file is needed but like I said before, this file can be
7 >> generated on a post-commit server just before populating portage
8 >> to rsync servers
9 >
10 > What's the advantage of that? We just end up with a different
11 > location for the information that's now in a file called ChangeLog.
12 > People want to be able to edit that stuff (yeah, no vote yet, but
13 > the tendency seemed going that way) so why not keep it local to the
14 > ebuild?
15 Well it seems to me that most people want the simplest solution which
16 is "if the changelog is wrong so be it"
17 >
18 >>> An additional advantage of keeping the file is that we can
19 >>> easily fix all entries that people wrote/committed ugly and
20 >>> helpless messages for, like "^" and so on.
21 >>>
22 >> In this case you need smart filtering tools to avoid duplicate
23 >> messages ( one from $commit_message and the one you wrote
24 >> yourself to fix that message ). However, this will be the case if
25 >> we decide to allow edits on ChangeLogs.
26 >
27 > Ehm. Are we talking about the same thing here? ChangeLog commits
28 > don't end up in ChangeLogs, do they?
29 What is a "Changelog commit"? How is that different from echangelog
30 "Fix previous changelog entry" + repoman commit -m "Changelog Fixed".
31 Could you please explain me the changelog edit mechanism you have in mind?
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33 - --
34 Regards,
35 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>