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From: Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:31:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810011731.26335.bangert@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080826204036.GE30560@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>

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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> said:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in our
> main CVS repo.
>
> The primary use-case that has been publicly stated before was for users
> to be able to identify to developers what version of a given ebuild
> they were using.
>
> Q: How much have you utilized the primary use case?
>
> Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use?
>
> For evaluating existing uses of the primary case, I took a glance at
> Bugzilla. There are 624 bugs total that contain a $Header$ with an
> existing Gentoo path. At least 143 of those are for new packages or
> version bumps (they copied existing ebuilds).


it appears we have decided to keep the $Header$ keyword in ebuilds for 
now. however, what about removing it from the ChangeLog?

kind regards
Thilo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-01 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-26 20:40 [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-26 20:41 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2008-08-26 20:54   ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-26 20:59     ` Yuri Vasilevski
2008-08-26 21:45       ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-26 21:57         ` Yuri Vasilevski
2008-08-26 22:25           ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-26 22:37             ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2008-08-26 22:54               ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-26 23:19                 ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2008-08-26 23:28                   ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2008-08-26 22:46             ` Yuri Vasilevski
2008-08-26 22:46         ` Raúl Porcel
2008-08-27 16:35   ` Fabian Groffen
2008-08-27 17:28     ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-27 17:38       ` Fabian Groffen
2008-08-27 18:57         ` Alec Warner
2008-08-27 19:15           ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-08-27 19:24             ` Fabian Groffen
2008-08-27 19:16           ` Fabian Groffen
2008-08-26 20:46 ` Mart Raudsepp
2008-08-27 17:12 ` Paul Varner
2008-10-01 15:31 ` Thilo Bangert [this message]
2008-10-01 23:21   ` Robin H. Johnson

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