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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