Re: [Quilt-dev] Changes file

[Togan Muftuoglu]

Hi Jean
>>>>> "Jean" == Jean Delvare <address@hidden> writes:


    Jean> So the my first proposal is to drop quilt.changes, and the gain is
    Jean> that we developers no longer have to maintain that file. A side gain
    Jean> is a reduction of the package size, as the quilt.changes file now
    Jean> exceeds 150 kB and keeps growing, it is already almost as large as
    Jean> the source code itself (180 kB.)

Ok you have a very valid point.

    
    Jean> So in the end each packager must do some work to summarize the
    Jean> changes, and this effort is duplicated across distributions.

    Jean> So my second proposal is that we developers write the change
    Jean> summary. This will make packager's lives easier. As I wrote before,
    Jean> I have no strong opinion on where and when the summary should be
    Jean> written. The easiest is probably to write it at release time and
    Jean> include it in the announcement. Including it in the source tree is
    Jean> fine with me too, as it will be much smaller than today's
    Jean> quilt.changes.

Ok now I understand your intentions, and you have valid points, I see where
you are heading to.

    Jean> I volunteer to retroactively write the digests for v0.60 and v0.61,
    Jean> if that helps getting things started.

I am just a happy end user who follows the git and uses quilt quite often

Thanks


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