[gentoo-dev] Re: [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:33:56 +0200
Bruno <bonbons67@internet.lu> wrote:

> Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog?
> 
> Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some
> of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them)
> and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds).
> 
> In order to not bloat the tree I would like to see old entries purged
> when there are more than 25-50 of them, especially if they refer to
> ebuilds gone since more than 3-6 months.
> Someone in need for long gone ebuild would have to look at VCS anyhow, so
> looking at ChangeLog/history over there would seem logical.

No, it's a pain in the ass to have to go pull up that info through cvs and
impossible when you're offline.


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