Re: [gentoo-dev] Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-26 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? > In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > reasons... Should we still start one? It's never too late. Even echangelog works in the eclass directory, once you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > As for codifying this, applying software to automate splitting > > changelogs in this manner could be initially challenging as I've seen > > a few Changelogs with really inconsistent style at the bottom of them. > > How many really long changelogs do we have now? Maybe we should just > split t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-26 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:00:36 +1300 Kent Fredric wrote: > On 27 October 2011 06:46, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: > > > > > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a > > certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) > > the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/26/2011 08:46 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Dear all, > > two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: > > 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? > In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > reasons... Should we still start one? > > 2) I'd lik

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-26 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 19:46 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel escribió: > Dear all, > > two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: > > 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? > In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > reasons... Should we still start one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old changelogs / eclass dir

2011-10-26 Thread Kent Fredric
On 27 October 2011 06:46, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size > (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) > the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file > is renamed with a date extension and a > new file is started