[gentoo-dev] Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-core] Keywords policy]

[gentoo-dev] Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-core] Keywords policy]

[Doug Goldstein]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:55:11 Ferris McCormick wrote:
>   
>> Now that I've said I'm tired of this thread, let me add to it.  I'd like
>> to add one more point, namely:
>>     *  Please explain in the ChangeLog what you are doing and why.  In
>> this case, if I look at kdelibs for example, what I see is "Version bump
>> to KDE 4.0.1" which looks pretty harmless.  A couple lines explaining
>> that it is package.masked because it doesn't actually work might have
>> been helpful.
>>     
>
> Do you really think that should go into the ChangeLog of all 208 packages? 
> Personally I would have thought the package.mask message would be 
> sufficient...
>
>   
considering you can do the following:
$ echangelog "Version bump to KDE 4.0.1. This is a major version change, 
please review package.mask for details."

and for the other 207 packages you do

$ !echan

it sounds more like laziness on the part of the KDE team.
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