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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:23:54 +0000
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From: Corinna Vinschen 
> On Nov 19 10:18, cyg Simple wrote:
> > On 11/19/2015 10:13 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > Does anyone care about that?  Lately I don't.  In fact I've skipped sending
> > > the last few, and no one seems to have noticed.
> > >
> > > Can we leave it to the maintainer's discretion about whether they need to
> > > send one of those on every update?  Maybe it already is, and I didn't know.
> > > Of course some updates are important or need explanation or a headsup, and
> > > then the maintainer should send one.
> >
> > My opinion is that every time the package is modified there should be an
> > announcement of the new package and what was changed.  Pointing to a
> > ChangeLog may be fine but not announcing the change is just wrong.
> 
> I agree.  Maybe cygport's new (in testing) "announce" command simplifies
> it enough to be not much of a burden?

The announcements let me know when there are updates for my installation,
so I would like to see them continue.

--Ken Nellis