Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: News item format 2.0

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> For example, for foo-1.0 to -2.0 upgrade notes, we'd do:
>
>   Display-if-installed: <foo-2.0
>   Display-if-visible: >=foo-2.0
>
> which would basically mean that all people having old foo installed
> would get the item as soon as they foo-2.0 becomes visible to them.
> But people installing straight 2.0 without previous versions don't get
> the item.

This works, but does require 2.0 to be in the tree already.  It is
obviously simpler as a result.

I think it still makes sense - users just need to check news before
they update.  We couldn't put out the news items a few days in advance
this way.

So, ++ from me.

-- 
Rich