From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23275 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 21:56:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6670 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 21:56:39 -0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:56:19 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1053636678.1242.23.camel@mermaid.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <1053636678.1242.23.camel@mermaid.isi.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305221756.38366.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] changelogs... X-Archives-Salt: 992e6f87-956e-4d0b-a358-a3be43a4d73e X-Archives-Hash: d0c2e88b257688a3132fd9874b2588d1 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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=20 HOMEPAGE set in the ebuild for people to query, and that's where people=20 should go to get release information. =20 If no information is available about the release on the HOMEPAGE, then I=20 agree some notes in the ChangeLog would be appropriate. Cheers, Dylan Carlson Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x708E165F Key fingerprint =3D 3AEA DE38 FE42 15A6 C0E2 730E 3D04 BCC1 708E 165F =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zUeVPQS8wXCOFl8RAhKuAJ0eAImHazoFHbJHcOXe/z9S4jrIHgCfSyEC jgImkiUL6eZPgtNkl5NHLEk=3D =3DlJM9 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list