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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:33:17
Message-Id: 43BA0B95.5030504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time by Lance Albertson
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4 Lance Albertson wrote:
5 | See the part that I said "make sense to take out". What you described is
6 | a perfect example of something that needs to stay. All I'm getting at is
7 | that minor things that the package maintainer thinks isn't important to
8 | keep in the active changelog, should be able to be removed. I'm not
9 | implying to blindly remove changelog entries solely based on the fact
10 | that those ebuilds are in the attic. Common sense would play here.
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12 This is a nice idea in theory, but that means maintainers will have to
13 sit around reading the whole ChangeLog and editing it. That directly
14 takes away from real development time, for how much benefit?
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16 The tradeoff isn't worth it to me.
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18 Thanks,
19 Donnie
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