Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-11-08

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 22:58 +0200, Fabian Groffen escribió:
> On 26-10-2011 20:05:05 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Why don't we try to reach a consensus? Maybe we should be allowed to
> > simply run echangelog (or whatever is used) to generate a message like:
> >   26 Oct 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -pangomm-2.26.3.ebuild
> > 
> > And simply that
> > 
> > Pros:
> > - People refusing to add a message saying "Drop old" (or similar) could
> > be happy with this, as no redundant information is required to be
> > written in ChangeLog. 
> > - Users will still see that a package was removed, as it's indicated
> > with "-" previous removed file.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> You can see it has been removed, but you typically want to know why.
> That's the idea of the ChangeLog file.
> 
> Compare:
> 
> old
> 
> remove for security bug ...
> 
> [this is a placeholder, please ignore]
> 
> ^
> 
> Version bump
> 
> Remove superseeded versions
> 
> Drop due to dep on <libpng-1.5
> 
> 

But most of times we simply remove old versions because they are old
and, in that case, there is no need to add "Drop old" (as I am currently
doing)

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