Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?

[Patrick Lauer]

On 02/23/2016 07:07 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o
> <mailto:patrick@g.o>> wrote:
>
>     See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565566
>
>     Since we have ChangeLogs again (November) they've been in backwards
>     order. Which is not really good - it breaks tools (like emerge
>     --changelog) and makes it harder to read for humans.
>
>     As a bonus it's inconsistent because the old Changelog-2015 files
>     are in
>     normal order, and the new ones are reversed. Which sense no makes.
>
>     The suggestions in the bug are of great entertainment value, but they
>     all avoid the simple idea of generating ChangeLogs in changelog
>     (reverse
>     chronological) order. Which would fix all tools and make almost every
>     consumer of changelogs happy.
>
>     So, can we please, after over 4 months of stalling, just fix this
>     embarassment?
>
>
> I don't see any attached patches...so it looks like there is room for
> you to contribute.
>
> -A
>
>
from gitweb.gentoo.org -
infra/mastermirror-scripts.git

~line 167:

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case $HOURS in
	3|9|15|21) EGENCACHE_CHANGELOG="--update-changelogs --changelog-reversed
--changelog-output ChangeLog" ;;
esac


remove "--changelog-reversed"

Enjoy cookie.
(Of course this may require removing the existing changelogs first etc. ...)

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