Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Lance Albertson wrote:
| 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.

This is a nice idea in theory, but that means maintainers will have to
sit around reading the whole ChangeLog and editing it. That directly
takes away from real development time, for how much benefit?

The tradeoff isn't worth it to me.

Thanks,
Donnie
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