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Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Add a NEWS file
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Martin Quinson |
Subject: |
Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Add a NEWS file |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:02:47 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Thanks for that, that's increadibly informative, even for me that
should have followed the development of quilt since then ;)
Bye, Mt.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 03:05:37PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Add a NEWS file containing a summary of the most important
> user-visible changes in each version of quilt. The goal is to
> replace quilt.changes, which was partly incomplete and partly
> redundant with the git log, by something useful for packagers and
> users.
> ---
> As discussed earlier on the quilt-dev list:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2014-02/msg00034.html
>
> Comments and suggestions on both the contents and the format are
> welcome.
>
> I only went back to version 0.50. If anyone has good change summaries
> for older versions, please contribute.
>
> NEWS | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
>
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> +Version 0.61 (2013-12-08)
> + - No new feature, but almost two years of fixes and minor improvements
> + - Fix support for ./configure --with-xargs
> + - Parameter quoting fixes to many commands
> + - Various fixes to the pop, push, refresh and patches commands
> + - Translation fixes
> + - setup: Many fixes and improvements
> + - remove-trailing-ws: Several fixes and improvements
> + - remove-trailing-ws: Add a dedicated test case
> + - quilt.el: Many fixes and improvements (emacs integration)
> +
> +Version 0.60 (2012-02-29)
> + - BSD compatibility improvements
> + - grep: Support file names which include spaces
> + - import: Fix import of relative patches
> + - mail: Several fixes
> + - setup: Support directory and archive names which include spaces
> + - backup-files: rewritten from C to bash
> + - backup-files: Add a dedicated test case
> +
> +Version 0.51 (2012-01-28)
> + - Fix support for ./configure --docdir
> + - Various $TMPDIR fixes
> + - mail: Fix delivery address checking
> + - mail: CC people in more common patch headers
> + - push: Fix bash completion
> + - inspect: Complain if wrapper script can't be executed
> +
> +Version 0.50 (2011-12-05)
> + - 34 months of fixes and improvements, too many to list them all
> + - Fix detection of the patch version
> + - Avoid error messages when building due to missing git-desc file
> + - Add support for lzma and xz compression formats
> + - import: Fix confusing French translation
> + - mail: Stop using =~ for older versions of bash
> + - mail: Fix a temporary directory leak
> + - revert: Stop using cp -l for filesystems not supporting hard links
> + - revert: Add bash completion support
> + - setup: Add --fuzz parameter
> + - setup: Add support for reverse patches
> + - inspect: Fix shell syntax errors
> + - Fix error in test case create-delete
> +
>
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
>
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This paper needs a major rewrite to fix the English, make it more
concise, explain clearly what exactly is the performance evaluation
methodology, and how it is different from the obvious.
-- Bastard Reviewer From Hell (seen for real as PC member)
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