Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

[Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>]

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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:25 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: 
> 
>>>I'm also for telling the users to rsync exclude the ChangeLogs if they
>>>don't want them instead of getting rid of them or crippling them.
>>
>>I don't think that's really a solution. That's just a way to minimize
>>what they get. If you really want to look at a solution, you should
>>reduce whats actually in the changelog. All the changelogs are in CVS,
>>and if someone wanted to go look back at any changes, they can either
>>look at viewcvs or (hopefully soon), grab it via anoncvs. I bet you >80%
>>of things in the changelogs are for things that are in the attic. I say
>>we need a way to either have echangelog (or another script) to clean out
>>changelog entries for things that are in the attic (and make sense to
>>take out). Maybe another option would be to remove any 'version bump'
>>type entries that are old as well.
> 
> 
> OK.  I keep seeing this argument about ChangeLog stuff for ebuilds in
> the Attic and I just think people might not be thinking it totally
> trough.  For example, I made changes to the vmware-workstation ebuilds
> to force group membership a while back because of a security bug.
> However, there's been another security bug since, so those changes were
> made on ebuilds now in Attic, but the change is still valid in the
> current ebuilds.
> 
> I don't see a problem with removing version bump and stabilization
> messages, but everything else should stay in the ChangeLog for as long
> as the package is still around.

See the part that I said "make sense to take out". What you described is
a perfect example of something that needs to stay. All I'm getting at is
that minor things that the package maintainer thinks isn't important to
keep in the active changelog, should be able to be removed. I'm not
implying to blindly remove changelog entries solely based on the fact
that those ebuilds are in the attic. Common sense would play here.

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Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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