Re: [gentoo-dev] dev's updating changlogs

[Dave Nellans <dnellans@cs.utah.edu>]

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i hear you on putting the effort into the ebuilds and appriciate it very
much!  just a one liner for and update is often more than sufficient to
explain what is going on and appease vicious guys like me ;)

dave

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:15, Seth Chandler wrote:
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> this is my package and i added openoffice-bin 1.1_beta which was supposed to 
> be masked, i personally don't comment out things that are supposed to be 
> masked, i made an error and it was ~arch
> 
> then i added 1.0.3 which i should have done a changelog for, but i've been 
> really busy with the actual from source version...
> 
> the change today was becuase 1.0.3 doesn't print...period
> 
> the openoffice guys made a booboo, and i've been working on getting patches
> 
> changelogs are key to our development, but i'm going to put most of my effort 
> into the packages, which is IMO where they belong...i'll update the 
> changelogs within a week (after all this printing stuff is sorted out)...
> 
> and the 'upgrade downgrade game' is more like the "working version game"
> 
> seth
> 
> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 20:21, Dave Nellans wrote:
> > sorry to harp on this but after an emerge sync this afternoon
> > openoffice-bin wanted to upgrade to 1.1_beta after it has already been
> > upgraded once, then downgraded to 1.0.3.  yet in the Changelog there is
> > still NO entry past 1.0.2 from late january.
> >
> > could devleopers PLEASE follow the procedure and update the changlogs?
> > while i appriciate the ebuild work, its quite annoying to see major
> > upgrades like this with zero documentation about it explaining why its
> > bouncing back and forth between versions...
> >
> > sorry for a bit of rant but i think its important to update the
> > Changelogs so mere users of the package know why they're playing the
> > upgrade/downgrade game constantly!
> >
> > dave
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