[syslog-ng] trouble with chain_hostnames

[Gergely Nagy]

Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> writes:

>> 2a) Suggestion: can you publish the syslog-ng changelogs in a single
>> file appending changes, or a searchable database?  As far as I can
>> tell, I currently have to download the changelog for each individual
>> syslog-ng version released in order to search and see if an issue was
>> released and that is a huge PITA.  
>
> The easiest way to do this is to check the git history, I try to write
> readable commit logs and that's easy to search using gitk.
>
> The NEWS file is wiped out in every major release. Probably not the best
> idea, but that's how I did it in the past 14 years, primarily because it
> is a source for merge failures when merging in an older branch to the
> new one.
>
> Still, the best option is gitk.

Another option is to persuade me to write a script that extracts the
NEWS files for all releases from git, and bastes together a "complete"
NEWS file.

That can be published alongside the snapshot tarballs I make.

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