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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
  @ 2011-04-30 13:44 99%       ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
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From: "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." @ 2011-04-30 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 4/30/11 3:05 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
> On 14:28 Sat 30 Apr     , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
>> If you read the last paragraph in my suggestion was to cycle the logs...
> Maybe this would be better together with a mechanism (automatic?) to keep the
> complete ChangeLogs (as they are now) somewhere (but not in the main
> tree). Sometimes, full history/ChangeLog can be useful, eg. when you
> want to see quickly how old a package in the tree is, or find bug numbers of
> fixes you may want to recheck etc etc.

Seconded. I sometimes read entire ChangeLogs, for example for abandoned
packages or packages I suspect to be abandoned, sometimes I read them
for fun, and so on.

I'm fine with shipping a trimmed down versions to users, but I think the
full version must be easy to access.

A possible solution would be to truncate the logs in the cvs->rsync
migration.


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