Re: Changelog and 7.1.3 release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Changelog and 7.1.3 release
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Msg-id 200109072017.f87KHYc21507@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Changelog and 7.1.3 release  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Changelog and 7.1.3 release  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Can we come to some kind of decision on this before going beta?


> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Can I ask why we are mentioning the changelog for the release and not
> > the list from the HISTORY file?  Any why are we putting the changelog in
> > the tarball anyway?  Seems that could easily go on a web site.
> 
> The point of these changelogs was to show the changes between beta and rc
> versions, because those were not necessarily recorded in the HISTORY file.
> However, putting these in the tarball is questionable (if you already
> downloaded the tarball then you might as well proceed with installing it),
> still having them there now is even more questionable (who cares?), and
> making them for minor releases is redundant and confusing.  I vote for
> removing them.
> 
> First prize for Consistency in Naming, btw.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
> 
> 

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