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