Samuli Suominen posted on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:34:35 +0300 as excerpted: > On 06/17/2011 09:18 PM, Duncan wrote: >> >> Meanwhile, case-in-point of why changelogging removals matters. My >> last post was to a kde list, helping someone trying to build kdelibs on >> RHEL. He was missing the libdbusmenu-qt dependency
>> Because the information was in the changelog >> 0.3.2 isn't much more than a year old (on RHEL 5 it's likely an >> upgrade!), but was already considered old enough to remove >> ~6 months later. >> >> That information on 0.3.2 removal wouldn't have been available to me >> had someone not put it in the changelog. >> Having that information not available locally on my system, either by >> changelog as now, or by git whatchanged, if users finally get access to >> direct git-pull once the main tree is git-upgraded, would be a serious >> regression. >> >> > I'm sorry, but honestly, did you have a point in there somewhere? Mike's correct. Not having package removal information in the changelog would be a serious regression, as the last paragraph states in summary of the previous, which is excerpted above. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
