"Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi folks, > > I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in our > main CVS repo. > > The primary use-case that has been publicly stated before was for users > to be able to identify to developers what version of a given ebuild > they were using. > > Q: How much have you utilized the primary use case? > > Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use? > > For evaluating existing uses of the primary case, I took a glance at > Bugzilla. There are 624 bugs total that contain a $Header$ with an > existing Gentoo path. At least 143 of those are for new packages or > version bumps (they copied existing ebuilds).
it appears we have decided to keep the $Header$ keyword in ebuilds for now. however, what about removing it from the ChangeLog? kind regards Thilo
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