Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:34, Alec Warner wrote:
>
> emerge --changelog has no 'official' format.  I believe echangelog
> actually puts the changes in the correct format for emerge -l to read,
> however not everyone uses echangelog.  Many developers commit in an
> incompatable syntax causing the parsing to fail.  This I believe, is an
> implementation issue.  Obviously if someone is trying to get an upgrade
> guide to users they aren't going to commit in an incompatable format.

I would also like to add that the changelog has too much information to be 
usefull as a news source. In all honesty, when I'm emerging a new version 
of a package I'm not interested in keyword bumps, small cosmetic changes, 
added auxiliary scripts or documentation. These are all documented (and 
should be) in the changelog. If I update my system however, I'm mainly 
interested in knowing whether something is going to break. News would be 
a way to provide this knowledge to a user in an as concise as possible 
way.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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