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On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:20 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> > I don't see a problem with removing version bump and stabilization |
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> > messages, but everything else should stay in the ChangeLog for as long |
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> > as the package is still around. |
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> See the part that I said "make sense to take out". What you described is |
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> a perfect example of something that needs to stay. All I'm getting at is |
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> that minor things that the package maintainer thinks isn't important to |
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> keep in the active changelog, should be able to be removed. I'm not |
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> implying to blindly remove changelog entries solely based on the fact |
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> that those ebuilds are in the attic. Common sense would play here. |
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So you have now taken what was described as an automatic solution to |
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reduce size into a manual process, reducing usability of the ChangeLog |
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and increasing workload for every ebuild developer. |
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I'm sorry, but I still think the idea of simply RSYNC_EXCLUDEing the |
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ChangeLog by default would be a much better solution. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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