Jason Stubbs posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:08:08 +0900:
> On Saturday 05 November 2005 03:53, Alec Joseph Warner wrote: >> As far as including news in the tree goes, news is repository bound >> information. Each repository may in fact have relevant news, and in >> preparation for multiple repositories this is how the news should be >> handled. It goes with the rest of the repo-specific information. That >> is why it should be in the tree. > > I seem to be repeating myself... What's an example of repository-specific > non-package-specific news? Why does `emerge --changelog` not suffice for > package-specific news? I'd say it's a matter of degree, or we'd not be having the discussion. Ideally, there's a changelog entry for /every/ commit. The specified purpose of "news" is to convey out-of-the-ordinary changes, where the Gentoo user (aka Gentoo system sysadmin) needs to be aware of something unusual, and likely take extraordinary steps to manage the upgrade. Certainly, "stable on X arch" a bunch of times as a bunch of changelog entries do not qualify as "out-of-the-ordinary", yet that's the sort of documentation of changes one expects to fine in a changelog, tho they would only be "noise" in the proposed "news" system, and shouldn't generate news messages at all. Perhaps this is something that needs further clarification in the GLEP? -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
