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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565566 |
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> Since we have ChangeLogs again (November) they've been in backwards |
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> order. Which is not really good - it breaks tools (like emerge |
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> --changelog) and makes it harder to read for humans. |
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> As a bonus it's inconsistent because the old Changelog-2015 files are in |
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> normal order, and the new ones are reversed. Which sense no makes. |
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> The suggestions in the bug are of great entertainment value, but they |
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> all avoid the simple idea of generating ChangeLogs in changelog (reverse |
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> chronological) order. Which would fix all tools and make almost every |
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> consumer of changelogs happy. |
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> So, can we please, after over 4 months of stalling, just fix this |
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> embarassment? |
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I don't see any attached patches...so it looks like there is room for you |
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to contribute. |
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-A |
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