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Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu
itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 27 20:17:22 UTC 2006
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:26:54 +0400
"Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Christopher Boumenot <boumenot at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Every time I upgrade a port I am usually left wondering what
> > changed.
>
> Some other projects maintain special package-specific
> ChangeLog files. Maybe VCS logs is not the best place
> for documentation, because it's not as easily accessible
> as a flat file would be.
>
> Moreover, I think porters don't document the hacks they
> have to employ - just because there's nowhere to do that.
You all might want to take a look at what I do in
mail/dspam[-devel]/[Makefile|files/UPDATING]
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merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might
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