Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-11-08
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:04:37
Message-Id: 1319670181.14838.0.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-11-08 by Fabian Groffen
1 El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 22:58 +0200, Fabian Groffen escribió:
2 > On 26-10-2011 20:05:05 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > Why don't we try to reach a consensus? Maybe we should be allowed to
4 > > simply run echangelog (or whatever is used) to generate a message like:
5 > > 26 Oct 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> -pangomm-2.26.3.ebuild
6 > >
7 > > And simply that
8 > >
9 > > Pros:
10 > > - People refusing to add a message saying "Drop old" (or similar) could
11 > > be happy with this, as no redundant information is required to be
12 > > written in ChangeLog.
13 > > - Users will still see that a package was removed, as it's indicated
14 > > with "-" previous removed file.
15 > >
16 > > What do you think?
17 >
18 > You can see it has been removed, but you typically want to know why.
19 > That's the idea of the ChangeLog file.
20 >
21 > Compare:
22 >
23 > old
24 >
25 > remove for security bug ...
26 >
27 > [this is a placeholder, please ignore]
28 >
29 > ^
30 >
31 > Version bump
32 >
33 > Remove superseeded versions
34 >
35 > Drop due to dep on <libpng-1.5
36 >
37 >
38
39 But most of times we simply remove old versions because they are old
40 and, in that case, there is no need to add "Drop old" (as I am currently
41 doing)

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