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diff --git a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/49e0425b-3332-4d0e-b371-300eccd55370/body b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/49e0425b-3332-4d0e-b371-300eccd55370/body deleted file mode 100644 index 4ebb4f2..0000000 --- a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/49e0425b-3332-4d0e-b371-300eccd55370/body +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu> writes: - -> ** NEWS file - -Speaking as the package maintainer, I would like a ‘ChangeLog’ file -separate from a ‘NEWS’ file. - -The ‘NEWS’ file would continue to be hand-edited, and would be a -high-level view of user-visible changes in the project each version. -Users could reasonably expect to be interested in this file when -installing a new version. It would also make sense to retire old news -From this file once it becomes sufficiently old, to keep it relevant to -users to read. - - -The ‘ChangeLog’ would be an automatically-generated changelog of -low-level changes, not for general human consumption but for letting -recipients have a fighting chance at knowing the historical context of a -particular change without access to the VCS. It would probably be best -done as Trevor says: - -> Depending on our level of masochism, either something starting out -> along the lines of [2] -> bzr log --gnu-changelog -n1 -r 200.. - -That makes it necessary to add the changelog file to the tarball, since -it won't be a file tracked by VCS and therefore won't be exported. Not a -problem:: - - $ release_version="1.0.0" - $ release_name="be-$release_version" - $ tarball_file=../$release_name.tar.gz - $ work_dir=$(mktemp -t -d) - $ export_dir=$work_dir/$release_name - $ changelog_file=$export_dir/ChangeLog - - $ bzr export $export_dir - $ bzr log --gnu-changelog -n1 -r ..tag:"$release_version" > $changelog_file - $ tar -czf $tarball_file $export_dir - $ rm -r $work_dir/ - - $ ls $tarball_file - ../be-1.0.0.tar.gz - $ tar -tzf $tarball_file | grep ChangeLog - be-1.0.0/ChangeLog - --- - \ “I bought a dog the other day. I named him Stay. It's fun to | - `\ call him. ‘Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!’ He went insane. | -_o__) Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.” —Steven Wright | -Ben Finney |