Subject: Re: commit message
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/29/2003 03:16:32
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> 	it is suggested/enforced that pkgsrc commit meesage should include
> 	changelog from the original package.  could we remove the requirement?
> 	the policy has been making bad sideeffects to our PR database -
> 	when original changelog includes "PR [0-9]*", the pkgsrc commit message
> 	will be attached to unrelated PR database entries.

As far as I understand, developers shouldn't copy the whole release notes
1:1, but rather extract a short summary (that shouldn't include any
non-NetBSD PR numbers).


 - Hubert

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