"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