Alec Joseph Warner wrote: >> to get you upgrade information. While I can see a great benefit in >> putting important information into the changelog, I really can't see why >> portage should provide functions to read a changelog, when nearly all >> packages provide the same information on their homepages. > > Because the functionality already exists and is in stable portage? > Because some developers maintain system critical packages that can cause > large amounts of breakage and get complaints from users when things > break? Gentoo is a distribution and there is some responsibility to > provide users upgrade paths when packages switch versions. Gentoo isn't > just portage, IMHO.
Note, we're talking about upstream's changelog, not portage's one. There is no feature to read upstream's changelog through portage *before* merging it. I agree that Gentoo is more than Portage, and it definitively should provide upgrade paths where necessary, but not by implementing such a feature. It's far easier to stick a note into the Changelog/post_pkg() saying "There were major changes in this release, please carefully read the changelog at http://www.upstream.org/."; Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
