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

[Martin Quinson]

Thanks for that, that's increadibly informative, even for me that
should have followed the development of quilt since then ;)

Bye, Mt.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 03:05:37PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 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
> +
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
> 
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This paper needs a major rewrite to fix the English, make it more
concise, explain clearly what exactly is the performance evaluation
methodology, and how it is different from the obvious. 
             -- Bastard Reviewer From Hell (seen for real as PC member)

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