Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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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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