On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:02:35PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > > ChangeLog entries is. See: > > > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998.xml > > > > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in > > ChangeLog." If we eventually autogenerate them from git logs this would > > happen any way (unless some kind of filtering system is in the middle) > > so we could already start now. I think it's better to have more than > > less information available to users. > > > > Regards, > > Petteri > > > > "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry > in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals. > I am actually with Samuli on this. Unless there is a particular reason for removing a package, I don't see any point of documenting this change anywhere. What difference would it make to you if you see an entry " -foo-1.0 old". It makes absolutely no sense.
Regards, -- Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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