Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji seketeli org>]

Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> a écrit:

> *if*, on the other hand, you want a ChangeLog because it makes your life
> as a packager easier (for some unknown reason) then you should probably
> ask for a Gnome Goal to add the autogeneration of the ChangeLog from the
> Git commit log to every GNOME project. the patch is trivial and I'm
> pretty sure it could also teach people a thing or two about auto-tools.

This would be awesome, as far as I am concerned. I personaly find
ChangeLogs quite valuable for situations where people have the source
packages (like a distribution DVD) but not necessarily an access to the
internet and want to understand when/how something changed. I found
myself in such a situation not very long ago and I was very happy to
have a proper ChangeLog around.

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	Dodji