Subject: Re: commit message
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/29/2003 03:45:42
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> when i attached a short summary, i get punished for not attaching
> the whole changelog. what is the policy, and where it is documented?
pkgsrc/Packages.txt, #11.3:
11.3 Updating a Package to a Newer Version
==========================================
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. There are various reasons for this:
...
Maybe we can make that a bit clearer, e.g. "no full ChangeLogs, non-NetBSD
PR numbers, etc."?
- Hubert
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