Problem: New stages have numerous news items listed that are likely not relevant, but are shown due to limitations in the filtering in NEWS items. E.g. on a recent stage3:
nspawntest / # eselect news list News items: [1] N 2013-09-27 Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs [2] N 2014-06-15 GCC 4.8.3 defaults to -fstack-protector [3] N 2014-10-26 GCC 4.7 Introduced the New C++11 ABI [4] N 2015-02-02 New portage plug-in sync system [5] N 2015-07-25 Python 3.4 enabled by default [6] N 2015-08-13 OpenSSH 7.0 disables ssh-dss keys by default [7] N 2015-10-22 GCC 5 Defaults to the New C++11 ABI [8] N 2016-06-19 L10N USE_EXPAND variable replacing LINGUAS [9] N 2017-11-30 New 17.0 profiles in the Gentoo repository Many of these are always displayed. For example: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes.en.txt has "Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage" and will be displayed on nearly every Gentoo machine. While relevant in 2015; I'm skeptical that its relevant today. I am also considering explicit changes in the filtering directives to resolve this in the future. Glep42 states: --- News Item Removal News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main tree) when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a future news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the method used for updates entries. --- I suggest we delete all entries prior to 2016. Git keeps history forever, so folks can gander at the old entries on gitweb.gentoo.org: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/ -A
