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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:08:11
Message-Id: 463D9998.4090100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42 by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty napsal(a):
2 > Dan Meltzer kirjoitti:
3 >> mmm, by this arguement news should be written for every version bump,
4 >> explaining what has changed in the package that is user visible. It would
5 >> definatly improve the users experience if they knew what they were upgrading
6 >> to, not just that they were upgrading.
7 >>
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
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19 Best regards,
20
21 Jakub Moc
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42 "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>