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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:21:29
Message-Id: 463D9D72.2090805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42 by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc kirjoitti:
2 > Petteri Räty napsal(a):
3 >> Dan Meltzer kirjoitti:
4 >>> mmm, by this arguement news should be written for every version bump,
5 >>> explaining what has changed in the package that is user visible. It would
6 >>> definatly improve the users experience if they knew what they were upgrading
7 >>> to, not just that they were upgrading.
8 >>>
9 >> For the standard version bumps people should be documenting things like
10 >> this in ChangeLog. Too bad it's usually just "Version bump. Fixes bug
11 >> #XXXXXX."
12 >
13 > Well, 'fixes bug #XXXXXX' is still way more useful entry than 'many
14 > bugfixes' or nothing at all in ChangeLog - which is not so rare at all,
15 > unfortunately :/
16 >
17
18 Repoman could be made to not commit stuff if new files are added without
19 a ChangeLog entry. This should be fairly easy to implement even with the
20 repoman code base.
21
22 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177290
23
24 Regards,
25 Petteri

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