[rfc] NEWS handling

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:58 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:


> I think it should be something where somebody e.g. generating the html
> documentation or building a package off a random branch can generate
> NEWS without needing any special help from pqm.

I was intending it to still be a versioned file - that lets it be
tweaked and edited when appropriate.

> > I
> > just don't want to have to edit another branch to fix a 'it missed
> > RELEASE, put it in RELEASE+1's section'.
> 
> And I guess you're also wanting to avoid needing to resubmit because
> of an accidental conflict in merging NEWS.

Yes.

> > So I guess I'm thinking of a fairly simple script that will take some
> > new entries (formatted properly), find the nearest section they fit into
> > in the NEWS file, and drop them in in alpa order with surrounding VWS.
> 
> That sounds good to me.

Cool.

-Rob
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