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* [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild
  @ 2011-04-30  7:22 99%             ` Duncan
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From: Duncan @ 2011-04-30  7:22 UTC (permalink / raw
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Samuli Suominen posted on Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:15:55 +0300 as excerpted:

> On 04/30/2011 07:45 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Samuli Suominen
>> <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> sources.gentoo.org is for that.   ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is
>>> not useful information to them
>> 
>> So it follows that users don't need to see when ebuilds were removed?
>> 
>> 
> Correct.  That information is not useful, except when it is (like when
> last stable was removed for some reason)
> 
> Enjoy:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365373

I'm a user, and despite the fact that I tend to run ~arch or even pre-tree 
testing overlays, I find ebuild removal information in the changelog WAY 
more useful than, say, when some obscure arch keyworded a version.

Ergo, the argument that users don't find that info useful is disproven.  
Users DO find it useful.  I /as/ a user find it useful and get rather 
annoyed when I'm trying to trace a change and there's no entry at all for 
it in the changelog!

So, please /do/ make ebuild removal entries in the changelog, as users 
/do/ find them useful. =:^)

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman




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2011-04-29 18:26     ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild Mark Loeser
2011-04-29 18:34       ` Samuli Suominen
2011-04-30  4:10         ` Jeremy Olexa
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