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# ChangeLog for sys-apps/net-tools
# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/net-tools/ChangeLog,v 1.119 2011/11/21 20:34:49 vapier Exp $

*net-tools-9999 (21 Nov 2011)
*net-tools-1.60_p201111202031570500 (21 Nov 2011)

  21 Nov 2011; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60_p201111202031570500.ebuild, +net-tools-9999.ebuild,
  metadata.xml:
  Add USE=old-output to revert ifconfig output to old style #217775.
  Start a new live git ebuild.

  23 Oct 2011; Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110820045617.ebuild:
  Marked ~amd64-linux

  14 Oct 2011; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110820045617.ebuild:
  Update HOMEPAGE after berlios->sf move.

*net-tools-1.60_p20110820045617 (20 Aug 2011)

  20 Aug 2011; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60_p20110820045617.ebuild:
  Version bump for #379715 by Nathan Phillip Brink.

  29 Jul 2011; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  Add ~x86-linux keyword.

  28 Jul 2011; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  Fix for prefix.

  12 Jun 2011; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  alpha/ia64/m68k/s390/sh/sparc stable wrt #368061

  09 Jun 2011; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #368061).

  08 Jun 2011; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  ppc/ppc64 stable wrt #368061

  05 Jun 2011; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  arm stable, bug #368061

  02 Jun 2011; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  x86 stable, bug #368061

  29 May 2011; Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  Stable on amd64 wrt bug #368061

*net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728 (09 Apr 2011)

  09 Apr 2011; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728.ebuild:
  Version bump.

  09 Apr 2011; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  Mark stable for ia64/s390/sh/sparc #357659.

  04 Apr 2011; Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  x86 stable per bug 357659

  27 Mar 2011; Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  Stable on alpha, bug #357659

  18 Mar 2011; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  arm stable, bug #357659

  13 Mar 2011; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  ppc/ppc64 stable wrt #357659

  11 Mar 2011; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #357659).

  08 Mar 2011; Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  Stable on amd64 wrt bug #357659

  08 Oct 2010; Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Drop to ~mips

*net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931 (15 Aug 2010)

  15 Aug 2010; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60_p20100815160931.ebuild:
  New snapshot that builds with glibc-2.12 #332853 by Michael Schachtebeck.

  10 Apr 2010; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  alpha/arm/ia64/m68k/s390/sh stable wrt #299177

  11 Mar 2010; Tiago Cunha <tcunha@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  stable sparc, bug 299177

  14 Jan 2010; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  x86 stable, bug #299177

  14 Jan 2010; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #299177).

  12 Jan 2010; nixnut <nixnut@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  ppc stable #299177

  07 Jan 2010; Brent Baude <ranger@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  Marking net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1 ppc64 for bug 299177

  07 Jan 2010; Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  amd64 stable, bug 299177

*net-tools-1.60_p20100101055920 (01 Jan 2010)

  01 Jan 2010; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60_p20100101055920.ebuild:
  Update snapshot.

  06 Sep 2009; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  Convert -idirafter to -I #283759 by Wolfram Kahl and move
  -fno-strict-aliasing to build system.

*net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1 (26 Aug 2009)

  26 Aug 2009; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  -net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017.ebuild,
  +net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017-r1.ebuild:
  Fix typo in netstat udp display #282794 by Ambroz Bizjak.

  24 Aug 2009; Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  restore the keywords so people can actually do installs

*net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017 (24 Aug 2009)

  24 Aug 2009; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60_p20090728014017.ebuild:
  Update cvs snapshot. Fix limited ifconfig output #238363 by cilly. Add
  SCTP support to netstat #258714 by Maxim Treskin. Add fix from Debian for
  ifconfig IPv6 parsing #270466 by Lindsay Haisley.

  24 Aug 2009; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  Update git invocation, disable infiniband with older kernels #238690 by
  Mark Wagner, and disable strict aliasing because this source code base is
  awful.

  30 Sep 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  alpha stable wrt #238207

  22 Sep 2008; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #238207).

  21 Sep 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  ia64/sparc/x86 stable wrt #238207

  21 Sep 2008; Brent Baude <ranger@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  stable ppc64, bug 238207

  21 Sep 2008; nixnut <nixnut@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc wrt bug 238207

  20 Sep 2008; Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  amd64 stable, bug 238207

  09 Jun 2008; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0013-Pull-in-stdlib.h-for-NULL-definition-to-f
  ix-225425.patch:
  Fix building with gcc-4.3 #225425 by Jose daLuz.

  10 May 2008; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  Pull in lzma-utils in DEPEND #220935 by Mart Raudsepp.

*net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1 (19 Apr 2008)

  19 Apr 2008; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0001-revert-621a2f376334f8097604b9fee5783e0f11
  41e66d-for.patch, -net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231.ebuild,
  +net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231-r1.ebuild:
  Revert ifconfig output style until packages can be updated #217775.

*net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231 (14 Apr 2008)

  14 Apr 2008; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0001-git-ignores.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0002-respect-normal-toolchain-envvars.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0003-libdir-needs-version.h.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0004-document-the-e-option.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0006-handle-just-raw-IP-info.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0005-all-of-the-8-man-pages-are-administrator-
  not-pr.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0007-prevent-overflows-in-interface-buffers.pa
  tch, +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0008-Mads-Martin-Joergensen-writes.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0009-Patch-by-pasi.valminen-hut.fi-to-fix-FQDN
  -handling-w.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0010-Patch-by-Tom-Duffy-tduffy-sun.com-to-teac
  h-ifconfi.patch,
  +files/1.60_p20071202044231/0011-comabug-gmail.com-writes.patch,
  +net-tools-1.60_p20071202044231.ebuild:
  New version based on current cvs.

  10 Apr 2008; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Use proper ar binary #217217 by Aleksey Lim and use emake in src_install.

  01 Nov 2007; <solar@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  - make sure diag subdir inherits our cflags

  09 Oct 2007; Christoph Mende <angelos@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Stable on amd64

  13 Jun 2007; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  alpha stable

  11 May 2007; Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Stable on mips.

  16 Apr 2007; Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc64

  11 Apr 2007; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA too.

  06 Apr 2007; Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  ppc stable

  21 Mar 2007; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  x86 stable

  06 Mar 2007; Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Stable on sparc

  17 Feb 2007; Alexander H. Færøy <eroyf@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable on MIPS; bug #152837

*net-tools-1.60-r13 (17 Feb 2007)

  17 Feb 2007; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60-r13.ebuild:
  Fix crash due to unaligned accesses #163430 by Gustavo Zacarias.

  15 Nov 2006; Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc64; bug #152837

  01 Nov 2006; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable on Alpha + ia64, bug 152837.

  30 Oct 2006; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #152837).

  28 Oct 2006; nixnut <nixnut@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc wrt bug 152837

  27 Oct 2006; Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable on sparc wrt #152837

  26 Oct 2006; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Stable on amd64/x86 wrt bug #152837.

*net-tools-1.60-r12 (11 Mar 2006)

  11 Mar 2006; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60-r12.ebuild:
  Fold etherwake and mii-diag into this package as well as a bunch of other
  diag utilities.

  29 Jun 2005; Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r11.ebuild:
  Marked stable on mips.

  29 May 2005; <solar@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  - update sys-apps/net-tools to use libc expanded variable elibc_uclibc vs
  uclibc so USE=-* works

  09 Apr 2005; Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r11.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc64

  28 Mar 2005; Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r11.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc.

  19 Mar 2005; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r11.ebuild:
  Stable on alpha.

  14 Mar 2005; Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r11.ebuild:
  Stable on sparc

*net-tools-1.60-r11 (11 Feb 2005)

  11 Feb 2005; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +net-tools-1.60-r11.ebuild:
  Move to using a patch tarball, add some updates from Fedora, add ipv6
  hostname fix by pasi.valminen@hut.fi #42650, and add support for infiniband
  to ifconfig by Tom Duffy #81180.

  10 Jan 2005; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +files/1.60-Makefile.patch, net-tools-1.60-r10.ebuild:
  Remove all references to config.h so the configure script will never run
  again #77348.

*net-tools-1.60-r10 (06 Jan 2005)

  06 Jan 2005; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  +files/1.60-appletalk.patch, files/1.60-man.patch,
  +files/1.60-numeric-ports.patch, +files/1.60-wide.patch,
  +net-tools-1.60-r10.ebuild:
  Add patch by comabug@gmail.com for the -w flag (dont truncate hostnames)
  #53731. Fix numeric translation with patch by Mads Martin Joergensen #76756.
  Ad patch from Debian to parse the appletalk format.

  02 Jan 2005; Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> :
  Change encoding to UTF-8 for GLEP 31 compliance

  30 Oct 2004; Tom Gall <tgall@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  stable on ppc64, bug #58633

  30 Oct 2004; Michael Imhof <tantive@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  Marked stable on s390. Closes #58633.

  19 Oct 2004; Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  stable on amd64

  18 Oct 2004; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  Stable on alpha, bug 58633.

  18 Oct 2004; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  Stable on hppa.

  17 Oct 2004; Hardave Riar <hardave@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  Stable on mips, bug #58633.

  17 Oct 2004; Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  Stable on sparc wrt security bug #58633.

  17 Oct 2004; Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  Stable on PowerPC.

  17 Oct 2004; <solar@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild:
  marked stable x86

  17 Aug 2004; <solar@gentoo.org> files/net-tools-1.60-get_name.patch:
  updated the get_name patch a little as per comment 16/17 bug 58633

*net-tools-1.60-r9 (12 Aug 2004)

  12 Aug 2004; <solar@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r9.ebuild,
  files/net-tools-1.60-get_name.patch:
  get_name() scans past the first ':' looking for <digit>*: - however if the
  bytes field has grown far enough to butt right up to the interface name it
  will cause get_name to parse over the bytes field thinking it may be an alias
  thus triggering an overflow. bug 58633

  17 Jul 2004; Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org>
  net-tools-1.60-r8.ebuild:
  use emake (work around buggy makefiles); error check; tidy

  16 Jul 2004; Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org>
  -net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  clean older ebuild

  27 Jun 2004; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  QA - fix use invocation

  15 Jun 2004; <solar@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r8.ebuild:
  added uclibc support

  19 Apr 2004; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Add gcc-3.4 patch #48167 by George L. Emigh.

  29 Mar 2004; Sven Blumenstein <bazik@gentoo.org>
  files/net-tools-1.60-cleanup-list-handling.patch:
  Fixed net-tools-1.60-cleanup-list-handling.patch, closes bug #46082,
  blameseemant! :)

*net-tools-1.60-r8 (28 Mar 2004)

  28 Mar 2004; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r6.ebuild,
  net-tools-1.60-r8.ebuild, files/net-tools-1.60-cleanup-list-handling.patch:
  fix for nameif segfaulting on larger mtabs, thanks to: Tony Vroon
  <tony@vroon.org> in bug #37769

  02 Mar 2004; Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  adding initial s390 support

  19 Oct 2003; <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild,
  files/net-tools-1.60-2.6-compilefix.patch:
  Added patch to get net-tools to go on 2.6 headers: Bug #31240.
  Thanks to Peter Gnodde <peter@gnodde.org> for the patch.

*net-tools-1.60-r7 (18 May 2003)

  29 Sep 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Add small manpage patch #29677.

  23 Jun 2003; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  Mark stable on alpha

  06 Jul 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild :
  Marked stable on hppa.

  22 Jun 2003; Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  Changed ~sparc & ~mips to sparc & mips

  18 Jun 2003; <msterret@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  Add support for use static (bug 22450) based on code from Sascha Silbe
  Use sed -i


  18 May 2003; Nicholas Wourms <dragon@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r7.ebuild:
  Version bump. Add Manifest. Update ether-wake to Donald Becker's latest
  version (1.08). Add an english manpage for ether-wake. Add newline characters
  to various multi-line string literals in order to fix gcc-3.3 compile errors.
  Update lib/masq_info.c to support ipvs configurations. Update netstat to fix
  interface name output and to support modifying the statistics refresh delay as
  a command-line argument.

*net-tools-1.60-r6 (18 Mar 2003)

  18 Mar 2003; Martin Holzer <mholzer@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild,
  net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild, net-tools-1.60-r6.ebuild:
  Fixed manpages are not installed cause of nls use flag.

*net-tools-1.60-r5 (16 Jul 2002)

  18 Mar 2003; Martin Holzer <mholzer@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild:
  Now installing man pages. Closes #17562.

  24 Feb 2003; Nicholas Wourms <dragon@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild :
  Marked as stable for mips.

  20 Feb 2003; Zach Welch <zwelch@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild :
  Added arm to keywords.

  10 Feb 2003; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r4.ebuild
  net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild :

  Many things -- moved the files and patches from files/ subdirectory into a
  tarball and sent it to the mirrors.  Also, changed sed expression
  delimiters from / to :, closing bug #15006 by Blu3
  <david+gentoo.org@blue-labs.org>

  09 Feb 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r5.ebuild :
  Added hppa to keywords.

  06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees <manson@gentoo.org> : changed sparc ~sparc keywords
 
  19 Nov 2002; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Under heavy loads the timestamps on the config files may cause
  the config process to be re-run requiring user input
  Both files are now touched at the same time (#10799)

  23 Oct 2002; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Removed bootcd USE flag

  16 Jul 2002; Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> ChangeLog  :
  added some RH patches

*net-tools-1.60-r4 (21 Jun 2002)

  18 Jan 2003; Jan Seidel <tuxus@gentoo.org> :
  Added mips to keywords

  19 Nov 2002; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Under heavy loads the timestamps on the config files may cause
  the config process to be re-run requiring user input.
  Both files are now touched at the same time (#10799)

  23 Oct 2002; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Removed bootcd USE flag

  14 Jul 2002; phoen][x <phoenix@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r4.ebuild :
  Added LICENSE, KEYWORDS, SLOT.

  21 Jun 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> :
  Only install /bin/hostname during USE=build.

*net-tools-1.60-r3 (20 Mar 2002)

  23 Oct 2002; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
  Removed bootcd USE flag

  14 Jul 2002; phoen][x <phoenix@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r3.ebuild :
  Added LICENSE, KEYWORDS, SLOT.

  20 Mar 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r3 :
  Alternate implementation of USE dependent nls compilation.

*net-tools-1.60-r2 (12 Mar 2002)
  
  12 Mar 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> net-tools-1.60-r2 :
  Added USE dependent nls compilation

*net-tools-1.60-r1 (1 Feb 2002)

  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ChangeLog :
  Added initial ChangeLog which should be updated whenever the package is
  updated in any way. This changelog is targetted to users. This means that the
  comments should well explained and written in clean English. The details about
  writing correct changelogs are explained in the skel.ChangeLog file which you
  can find in the root directory of the portage repository.