On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565566

Since we have ChangeLogs again (November) they've been in backwards
order. Which is not really good - it breaks tools (like emerge
--changelog) and makes it harder to read for humans.

As a bonus it's inconsistent because the old Changelog-2015 files are in
normal order, and the new ones are reversed. Which sense no makes.

The suggestions in the bug are of great entertainment value, but they
all avoid the simple idea of generating ChangeLogs in changelog (reverse
chronological) order. Which would fix all tools and make almost every
consumer of changelogs happy.

So, can we please, after over 4 months of stalling, just fix this
embarassment?

I don't see any attached patches...so it looks like there is room for you to contribute.

-A

case $HOURS in
	3|9|15|21) EGENCACHE_CHANGELOG="--update-changelogs --changelog-reversed --changelog-output ChangeLog" ;;
esac


remove "--changelog-reversed"

Enjoy cookie.
(Of course this may require removing the existing changelogs first etc. ...)