From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1359 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 00:29:44 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 22 Jul 2004 00:29:44 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BnRSv-0000Nc-MQ for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:29:41 +0000 Received: (qmail 27136 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jul 2004 00:29:41 +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 18707 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 00:29:40 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: rocky.richmond.edu: apache set sender to spyderous@gentoo.org using -f Message-ID: <42162.205.241.48.33.1090456178.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:29:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donnie Berkholz" To: In-Reply-To: <20040722022401.17ec0d74@sven.genone.homeip.net> References: <20040721163435.7F10B3F03@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> <200407212032.59857.stuart@gentoo.org> <20040722005540.69891157@sven.genone.homeip.net> <39928.205.241.48.33.1090454939.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> <20040722022401.17ec0d74@sven.genone.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MailScanner-SpamxCheck: , X-MailScanner-From: spyderous@gentoo.org X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 X-Archives-Salt: f362d8d1-ff13-4cef-895e-fccee2e38867 X-Archives-Hash: 5baa1c4bfb19f0fe89f1fd291f9ac0a6 Marius Mauch said: > On 07/21/04 Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> Wouldn't a new file called ChangeLog.xml solve this? If it exists, use >> it. If not, default to the old plain-text ChangeLog. > > Not really. > How do you make sure a dev adds new entries the XML version if it > exists? (in the case of multiple/no maintainers or arch maintainers) > Tools would have to merge the logs internally to be useful. > Supporting both formats will be a real PITA. Only allow one of the two to exist for a given package. We'd need a tool to migrate, echangelog would need to get smarter (as already mentioned) and repoman would need to enforce this. Could provide a way to autogenerate a plain-text ChangeLog from a ChangeLog.xml also. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list