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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changelogs
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:43:51
Message-Id: 20050727074053.6b5726f8@nomad.datanode.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changelogs by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:16:53 -0700
2 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3 >
4 > Maybe what's needed to address #2 is simply to include a separate
5 > portage changelog file, somewhere within the tree, possibly as its own
6 > package, or in the profiles root dir, along with the global
7 > package.mask, and use.desc and use.local.desc files. Portage could
8 > then add an "emerge portinfo" function, similar to "emerge info", that
9 > would spit out the "upstream" changelog between what's currently
10 > installed, and any new version.
11
12 or just a dodoc ChangeLog and have it tossed in the same share dir we
13 toss upstream docs/changelogs/readmes
14
15 /me is not weighing in with an opinion on this, mind you, just saying
16 there might be an even simpler way to include that info
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