Re: [gentoo-dev] changelogs...

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu May 22 2003 4:51 pm, Spundun Bhatt wrote:
> As a sidenote to the currently going discussion about package
> description.
>
> When I recieve updates of ebuilds... I am usually curious whats new to
> checkout (I am sure everybody is).
> I always do emerge -u --deep world -p --changelog
> But more often than not... chang log says "version bump" which doesnt
> tellme anything.
> Is it feasible to add a url to the release note of the release (in cases
> where its not an ebuild bugfix release).
> I dont know if there anything to do about it.. but I see gnome.org as
> the homepage of all components so its not easy atall to find out what a
> perticular component does.

I think that would be a needless expenditure of bits.   There is always 
HOMEPAGE set in the ebuild for people to query, and that's where people 
should go to get release information.  

If no information is available about the release on the HOMEPAGE, then I 
agree some notes in the ChangeLog would be appropriate.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson

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