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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:48
Message-Id: 20111026175636.79b66e26@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo by Bruno
1 On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:33:56 +0200
2 Bruno <bonbons67@××××××××.lu> wrote:
3
4 > Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog?
5 >
6 > Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some
7 > of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them)
8 > and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds).
9 >
10 > In order to not bloat the tree I would like to see old entries purged
11 > when there are more than 25-50 of them, especially if they refer to
12 > ebuilds gone since more than 3-6 months.
13 > Someone in need for long gone ebuild would have to look at VCS anyhow, so
14 > looking at ChangeLog/history over there would seem logical.
15
16 No, it's a pain in the ass to have to go pull up that info through cvs and
17 impossible when you're offline.
18
19
20 --
21 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense
22 toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime
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