Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo

[Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>]

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On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno <bonbons67@internet.lu> wrote:

>
> Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog?
>
> Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some
> of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them)
> and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds).
>
>
A lot of the older changelog entries also tend to be less normal, and some
long changelogs are so a-typical its virtually impossible to parse them with
machine code.

I know its probably not a big priority for most people, but if changelogs
can retain consistency so that the only part which is inconsistent is the
messages themselves.

I saw the --echangelog parameter turn up sometime this week and I haven't
played with it for fear of subtle inconsistencies with the form produced by
the echangelog client.

( I've been hacking on various tools to parse/normalise changelogs myself,
but it got overwhelming and I got sidetracked )

-- 
Kent

perl -e  "print substr( \"edrgmaM  SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 )
for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"

http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz

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