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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:13:16
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr8CCPtSG5XQTgwcmmy2HK9UGiLACXCY+6smmnukK0S_bw@mail.gmail.com
1 Problem:
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3 New stages have numerous news items listed that are likely not relevant,
4 but are shown due to limitations in the filtering in NEWS items. E.g. on a
5 recent stage3:
6
7 nspawntest / # eselect news list
8 News items:
9 [1] N 2013-09-27 Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs
10 [2] N 2014-06-15 GCC 4.8.3 defaults to -fstack-protector
11 [3] N 2014-10-26 GCC 4.7 Introduced the New C++11 ABI
12 [4] N 2015-02-02 New portage plug-in sync system
13 [5] N 2015-07-25 Python 3.4 enabled by default
14 [6] N 2015-08-13 OpenSSH 7.0 disables ssh-dss keys by default
15 [7] N 2015-10-22 GCC 5 Defaults to the New C++11 ABI
16 [8] N 2016-06-19 L10N USE_EXPAND variable replacing LINGUAS
17 [9] N 2017-11-30 New 17.0 profiles in the Gentoo repository
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19 Many of these are always displayed. For example:
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21 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes.en.txt
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23 has "Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage" and will be displayed on
24 nearly every Gentoo machine. While relevant in 2015; I'm skeptical that its
25 relevant today. I am also considering explicit changes in the filtering
26 directives to resolve this in the future.
27
28 Glep42 states:
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30 ---
31 News Item Removal
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33 News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main tree)
34 when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a future
35 news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the method
36 used for updates entries.
37 ---
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39 I suggest we delete all entries prior to 2016. Git keeps history forever,
40 so folks can gander at the old entries on gitweb.gentoo.org:
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42 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/
43
44 -A

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>