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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:02:35PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html |
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> > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for |
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> > ChangeLog entries is. See: |
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> > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998.xml |
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> > |
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> > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in |
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> > ChangeLog." If we eventually autogenerate them from git logs this would |
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> > happen any way (unless some kind of filtering system is in the middle) |
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> > so we could already start now. I think it's better to have more than |
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> > less information available to users. |
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> > |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Petteri |
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> > |
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> "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry |
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> in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals. |
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I am actually with Samuli on this. Unless there is a particular reason |
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for removing a package, I don't see any point of documenting this change anywhere. |
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What difference would it make to you if you see an entry " -foo-1.0 |
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old". It makes absolutely no sense. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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