Martti,

Reasons for putting information from the URL into the commit log:

+ Because the URL is not under our control, and may move and change
over time.

+ Because by putting a short summary of the things that have changed
between the old and new versions into the commit log, people using
cvs at a later date will know when things happened without having
to resort to browsers and playing hunt-the-thimble with twisty
little URL links.

+ Because by putting a short summary of the things that have changed
between the old and new versions into the commit log, people who
read the pkgsrc-changes mailing list will know whether they have
to update (a) yesterday, (b) ASAP or (c) when hell freezes over.

+ If there is a subsequent security advisory about samba, it would
be nice to be able to/it's absolutely imperative that we can find
out from our own commit logs when we were vulnerable.

Please always put a concise, appropriate and relevant summary of the
changes between old and new versions into the commit log when updating
a package.

Thanks,
Alistair

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:13:33PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > C'mon, can we get at least SOME data please? If i want to get a software's
> > changelog on the web, I know where to get it. But what you give above is
> > not enough even to judge if this is a security fix, contains major new
> > features or just bugfixes. Please pick *some* things out of the list and
> > put them into the commit message!
> 
> But why should I dublicate the text from the given URL? The list of
> changes is quite long...
> 
> Anyway, here's a short version:
> 
> * Several important oplock logic bugs that have been fixed in
>   this release, so an upgrade is recommended!
> * New daemon included - winbindd
> * Added/changed parameters (strict allocate, use mmap, nt acl support)
> * New printing parameters (disable spoolss, use client driver)
> * New LDAP parameters (ldap admin dn, ldap ssl)
> * New SSL parameters (ssl egd socket, ssl entropy file, ssl entropy bytes)
> * Removed parameters (share modes, ldap root, ldap root passwd)
> 
> Martti
> 
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