Re: [gentoo-dev] It seems our ChangeLogs are quite borked

[Joshua Baergen]

Petteri Räty wrote:
> I got annoyed enough about emerge -pl not working when people don't use
> echangelog like:
>
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/libXinerama/ChangeLog,v 1.27
> 2007/03/22 02:18:21 joshuabaergen Exp $
>
>   22 Mar 2007; Joshua Baergen <joshuabaergen@g.o>
>   +libXinerama-1.0.2.ebuild:
>   Version bump.  Includes new documentation and some small code tweaks.
>
>
> Because it's missing *libXinerama-1.0.2 (22 Mar 2007)  emerge -pl does
> not work. This lead me to write the code to detect these cases:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171962
>
> You can find the results here:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~betelgeuse/changelogs_with_bad_new_revision_entries.txt
>
> Most of these probably probably date back to time before echangelog but
> feel free to fix your packages any way :)
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>

I actually did use echangelog, so maybe something else is going on here...

Josh