Marking releases in the ChangeLog

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Wed Mar 15 04:01:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> Mark Kettenis writes:

 > Hi all,
 > I think it would be really useful to have a ChangeLog entry marking a
 > release (and perhaps pre-releases).  Right now it is not so easy to
 > see if a particular fix went in before, or after a specific release.
 > When dealing with bug-reports it is incredibly useful to know if a
 > particular bit of code has been touched since the release mentioned in
 > the bug-report.
I fully agree - and add my usual plea: Please mark releases and
pre-releases with a special tag.  This happens sometimes - but
unfortunatly not always :-(
 > I have brought this up before, but I didn't receive any reactions.

Andreas
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