On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog? > > Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some > of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them) > and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds). > > A lot of the older changelog entries also tend to be less normal, and some long changelogs are so a-typical its virtually impossible to parse them with machine code.
I know its probably not a big priority for most people, but if changelogs can retain consistency so that the only part which is inconsistent is the messages themselves. I saw the --echangelog parameter turn up sometime this week and I haven't played with it for fear of subtle inconsistencies with the form produced by the echangelog client. ( I've been hacking on various tools to parse/normalise changelogs myself, but it got overwhelming and I got sidetracked ) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
