Bug 583440

Summary:	general-concepts/news: add information about how and when to remove news items
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk>
Component:	GLEP Changes	Assignee:	Alec Warner <antarus>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ulm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/news/index.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Göktürk Yüksek archtester

2016-05-18 21:02:16 UTC

GLEP 42 has:

News Item Removal
News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main tree) when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a future news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the method used for updates entries.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2018-01-03 17:33:21 UTC

I think the most recent discussion centered around not removing news items (which are rarely updated and take up trivial space) and instead are going to modify the GLEP to make obsolete news items not display'd. Does that meet your needs?

We can modify eselect news to show "hidden / expired" news items if we want.

-A

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2018-01-03 20:54:19 UTC

(In reply to Alec Warner from comment #1)
> I think the most recent discussion centered around not removing news items
> (which are rarely updated and take up trivial space) and instead are going
> to modify the GLEP to make obsolete news items not display'd. Does that meet
> your needs?
> 
> We can modify eselect news to show "hidden / expired" news items if we want.

I think that any filtering should be done by the package manager, as it is currently done for the Display-If-* headers. So the list of unread news items (/var/lib/gentoo/news/news-gentoo.unread) would be updated when syncing, and any expired items would be removed from it.

In eselect news, filtering could cause problems, e.g. if an item expires between doing "eselect news list" and "eselect news read <item>".