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And why don't just only generate them on rsync mirrors, but remove them from git repo (like was planned initially, AFAIRC)?

01.11.2015, 18:17, "Patrick Lauer" <patrick@gentoo.org>:
> Ahoi,
>
> I'm getting mildly very irritated with the lack of easily accessible
> ChangeLogs for our packages.
>
> Apparently updating them stopped some time in August, so now there are
> some outdated ChangeLogs that don't really serve any purpose, and the
> easiest way for users to figure out why something changed is to yell at
> the clumsy gitweb.g.o interface. So instead of grep we now need lots of
> patience.
>
> This does not look reasonable to me.
>
> Can we please either properly remove ChangeLogs and tell people to not
> be curious about changes, or make them useful again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> A Gentoo User.