Debian users, beware! (bis)
Yet another funny story with the Debian packages. For whatever reason, debian delivers the CVS 1.12 version which is a bit buggy and has a complete new format for dates used in (r)logs.
Typically, this yield to a very annoying issue in continuum (well more specifically in the maven-scm framework): the builds section shown no author / date / comment in the generated changelog. Hopefully, Emmanuel was very quick on that one and even the new date format introduced in 1.12 is now supported, at least in the development version.
So if cvs -v yield something like bla bla 1.12.XX, revert to 1.11.17; just in case…
Sunday 25 Mar 2007 | Stéphane | General
Thanks Stéphane,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479752
tells how to keep the old formats if you want:
The default date format changed in 1.12.x to use ISO date format by
default. In the Debian package I’ve added an option to keep using the
old date format. Add the following to $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config:
# For the new CVS version 1.12 turn log dates back to the old format
DateFormat=old
if you’d prefer that.