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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:50:07
Message-Id: 20110430004918.GB6032@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild by Matt Turner
1 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:40:49PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On 04/29/2011 09:26 PM, Mark Loeser wrote:
4 > >> "Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)" <ssuominen@g.o> said:
5 > >>> ssuominen    11/04/29 18:13:31
6 > >>>
7 > >>>   Removed:              transmission-2.12.ebuild
8 > >>>   Log:
9 > >>>   drop old, broken with stable libnotify
10 > >>>
11 > >>>   (Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha30/cvs/Linux x86_64, RepoMan options: --force)
12 > >>
13 > >> When removing an ebuild, please do document it in the ChangeLog.
14 > >>
15 > >> Thanks,
16 > >>
17 > >
18 > > no thanks
19 >
20 > Posts like these just make me want to unsubscribe.
21 >
22 > Is there actually some debate as to whether ebuild removals should be
23 > documented in the ChangeLog? Why shouldn't this be done? It hardly
24 > takes any time at all.
25
26 Not that I know of. AFAIK, all changes made to ebuilds are supposed to
27 be documented in the ChangeLog. That includes version bumps, removals,
28 stabilizations, everything.
29
30 No, there is no good reason not to do this.
31
32 William