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-[[!comment format=mdwn
- username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
- avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
- subject="comment 1"
- date="2018-10-11T18:59:31Z"
- content="""
-Can you help me understand the SETURLPRESENT etc change?  Why shouldn't these calls update presence information?  What information do they update?
-"""]]
diff --git a/doc/news/version_6.20181011/comment_2_269b29f168ae81e76c1cf6040021540b._comment b/doc/news/version_6.20181011/comment_2_269b29f168ae81e76c1cf6040021540b._comment
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-[[!comment format=mdwn
- username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
- avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
- subject="comment 2"
- date="2018-10-11T20:12:08Z"
- content="""
-Btw, the Hackage page says \"All reported builds failed as of 2018-10-11\" -- not sure if that's a concern.
-"""]]
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-[[!comment format=mdwn
- username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
- avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
- subject="comment 3"
- date="2018-10-11T20:36:58Z"
- content="""
-Also, can you check that the git-annex dependencies used in conda-forge are still correct?  They haven't been updated in a while.
-https://github.com/notestaff/git-annex-feedstock/blob/is-update-to-git-annex-6.20181011-new/recipe/meta.yaml#L18
-
-"""]]
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- username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
- avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
- subject="comment 4"
- date="2018-10-12T00:06:16Z"
- content="""
-a test failure: https://circleci.com/gh/conda-forge/git-annex-feedstock/116?utm_campaign=vcs-integration-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github-build-link
-"""]]
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-[[!comment format=mdwn
- username="joey"
- subject="""comment 5"""
- date="2018-10-16T15:05:42Z"
- content="""
-I'm not sure that a release announment is the best place to discuss a wide
-variety of topics that only happen to have all been included or be released
-to the release?
-
-In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not.
-
-I will say that if you are looking for information about any particular
-line from the changelog for a release, a good technique is to run `git
-blame CHANGELOG`, find the commit for that line, which is generally the
-commit that made the change, and will have significantly more information
-in the command message and/or bug report touched by that commit.
-"""]