[Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Add a NEWS file

[Jean Delvare]

Add a NEWS file containing a summary of the most important
user-visible changes in each version of quilt. The goal is to
replace quilt.changes, which was partly incomplete and partly
redundant with the git log, by something useful for packagers and
users.
---
As discussed earlier on the quilt-dev list:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2014-02/msg00034.html

Comments and suggestions on both the contents and the format are
welcome.

I only went back to version 0.50. If anyone has good change summaries
for older versions, please contribute.

 NEWS |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Version 0.61 (2013-12-08)
+  - No new feature, but almost two years of fixes and minor improvements
+  - Fix support for ./configure --with-xargs
+  - Parameter quoting fixes to many commands
+  - Various fixes to the pop, push, refresh and patches commands
+  - Translation fixes
+  - setup: Many fixes and improvements
+  - remove-trailing-ws: Several fixes and improvements
+  - remove-trailing-ws: Add a dedicated test case
+  - quilt.el: Many fixes and improvements (emacs integration)
+
+Version 0.60 (2012-02-29)
+  - BSD compatibility improvements
+  - grep: Support file names which include spaces
+  - import: Fix import of relative patches
+  - mail: Several fixes
+  - setup: Support directory and archive names which include spaces
+  - backup-files: rewritten from C to bash
+  - backup-files: Add a dedicated test case
+
+Version 0.51 (2012-01-28)
+  - Fix support for ./configure --docdir
+  - Various $TMPDIR fixes
+  - mail: Fix delivery address checking
+  - mail: CC people in more common patch headers
+  - push: Fix bash completion
+  - inspect: Complain if wrapper script can't be executed
+
+Version 0.50 (2011-12-05)
+  - 34 months of fixes and improvements, too many to list them all
+  - Fix detection of the patch version
+  - Avoid error messages when building due to missing git-desc file
+  - Add support for lzma and xz compression formats
+  - import: Fix confusing French translation
+  - mail: Stop using =~ for older versions of bash
+  - mail: Fix a temporary directory leak
+  - revert: Stop using cp -l for filesystems not supporting hard links
+  - revert: Add bash completion support
+  - setup: Add --fuzz parameter
+  - setup: Add support for reverse patches
+  - inspect: Fix shell syntax errors
+  - Fix error in test case create-delete
+


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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support