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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:25 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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>>>I'm also for telling the users to rsync exclude the ChangeLogs if they |
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>>>don't want them instead of getting rid of them or crippling them. |
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>>I don't think that's really a solution. That's just a way to minimize |
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>>what they get. If you really want to look at a solution, you should |
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>>reduce whats actually in the changelog. All the changelogs are in CVS, |
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>>and if someone wanted to go look back at any changes, they can either |
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>>look at viewcvs or (hopefully soon), grab it via anoncvs. I bet you >80% |
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>>of things in the changelogs are for things that are in the attic. I say |
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>>we need a way to either have echangelog (or another script) to clean out |
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>>changelog entries for things that are in the attic (and make sense to |
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>>take out). Maybe another option would be to remove any 'version bump' |
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>>type entries that are old as well. |
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> OK. I keep seeing this argument about ChangeLog stuff for ebuilds in |
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> the Attic and I just think people might not be thinking it totally |
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> trough. For example, I made changes to the vmware-workstation ebuilds |
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> to force group membership a while back because of a security bug. |
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> However, there's been another security bug since, so those changes were |
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> made on ebuilds now in Attic, but the change is still valid in the |
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> current ebuilds. |
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> I don't see a problem with removing version bump and stabilization |
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> messages, but everything else should stay in the ChangeLog for as long |
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> as the package is still around. |
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See the part that I said "make sense to take out". What you described is |
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a perfect example of something that needs to stay. All I'm getting at is |
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that minor things that the package maintainer thinks isn't important to |
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keep in the active changelog, should be able to be removed. I'm not |
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implying to blindly remove changelog entries solely based on the fact |
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that those ebuilds are in the attic. Common sense would play here. |
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