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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@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 08:11:22
Message-Id: 4DBBC46B.8030905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 04/30/2011 11:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > On 04/30/2011 07:39 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >
4 >>
5 >> sources.gentoo.org is for that. ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is
6 >> not useful information to them
7 >>
8 >> So no, I won't start cluttering up ChangeLogs and I would prefer if
9 >> others would stop it as well
10 >>
11 >
12 >
13 > Individual developers (especially QA project members) should not be
14 > ignoring policies when they feel like it.
15 >
16 > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html
17 >
18 > If you want to try and change the policy then put it on the agenda of
19 > the next council meeting as there does not seem to be a consensus
20 > backing your opinion. Until then everyone is expected to play by the rules.
21 >
22 > Petteri
23 >
24
25 It no where in the link you provided mentions ChangeLog is required for
26 removals. Removing an unused ebuild is not the same as making changes to
27 an ebuild.
28
29 We have no policy for logging removals. And that's like it should be.

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