Renaming packages, trimming changelog and re-starting revisions?

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu May 13 16:13:42 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:12:39AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 10:05 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we recently started a relatively big rename of several packages
> > (jakarta-commons). There seems to be inconsistency as far as changelog
> > trimming and revision numbering goes. I could not find anything on that
> > point on wiki.
> >
> > So:
> >
> >    
> Personally, I'd say. . .think really old is around three-
> > 1. Is is required to trim the changelog when renaming package?
> >    
> Please don't, but do comment on the old name at the( relevant changelog 
> entry.
>
Agreed -- I do trim changelogs of really old entries from my specs (4+
years) once a year or so.  That's separate from renaming.

-Toshoi
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