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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation, profiles/ mess.
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:24:57
Message-Id: 20161129152356.38d026a8.dolsen@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation, profiles/ mess. by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:59:57 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Robin H Johnson wrote:
5 >
6 > > TL;DR: Let's replace profiles/**/ChangeLog with profiles/ChangeLog,
7 > > because it's a mess.
8 >
9 > > I'm writing the new changelog generation code [1][2], and I'm
10 > > wondering if we can clean up the mess that we have in profiles/.
11 >
12 > > The existing Portage egencache --update-changelogs command does NOT
13 > > generate any ChangeLogs for profiles/ (or eclasses, licenses,
14 > > scripts, metadata, toplevel skel.*).
15 >
16 > I'd say keep it simple:
17 > - one ChangeLog for each package dir,
18 > - one ChangeLog for each first-level subdir other than categories
19 > (i.e. eclass, licenses, profiles, etc.),
20 > - no ChangeLog for category dirs (they contain only a single
21 > metadata.xml),
22 > - top-level ChangeLog for anything not covered by the other
23 > ChangeLogs.
24 >
25 > Ulrich
26
27
28 +1, keep it simple
29 --
30 Brian Dolbec <dolsen>