Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog format for ebuilds

[Daniel Robbins]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 07:14, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Why are we reinventing the wheel with the ChangeLog format of the
> ebuilds?  There is already a standard way of writing ChangeLogs,
> devined by GNU:
>
>            http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html#TOC40
>
> And there is code to assist in writing and parsing changelogs, written
> in that format.  We can't use it with ours.

GNU format makes it hard to "see" the actual releases.  The 2-line
indent is cleaner, imho.

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Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.