On 19-09-2011 19:58:52 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > What's the advantage of that?  We just end up with a different
> > location for the information that's now in a file called ChangeLog.
> > People want to be able to edit that stuff (yeah, no vote yet, but
> > the tendency seemed going that way) so why not keep it local to the
> > ebuild?
> Well it seems to me that most people want the simplest solution which
> is "if the changelog is wrong so be it"

That includes me, but that doesn't get us further. :)

> >> In this case you need smart filtering tools to avoid duplicate 
> >> messages ( one from $commit_message and the one you wrote
> >> yourself to fix that message ). However, this will be the case if
> >> we decide to allow edits on ChangeLogs.
> > 
> > Ehm.  Are we talking about the same thing here?  ChangeLog commits
> > don't end up in ChangeLogs, do they?
> What is a "Changelog commit"? How is that different from echangelog
> "Fix previous changelog entry" + repoman commit -m "Changelog Fixed".
> Could you please explain me the changelog edit mechanism you have in mind?

$EDITOR ChangeLog && repoman commit -m "added bugref"

(side-note: I don't see the point of your echangelog usage for this case)


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Fabian Groffen
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