[postgis-devel] NEWS file in 3.0 branch

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:10:51AM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> 
> The script might be grown to also check for ticket references
> (ensuring that each ticket reference found in git history
> is also found in NEWS) but sounds more complex and error prone...

I actually added this support, and found missing refs like:

  Reference to ticket #1003 missing from NEWS

The ticket reference was found in:

	commit e105d93474792db7ba802ccf00c47ee6e10b983b
	Author: Bborie Park <bkpark at ucdavis.edu>
	Date:   Thu Dec 15 00:21:31 2011 +0000

			Renamed st_bytea to bytea as per PostGIS
			convention.  Existing databases will not be
			affected if upgraded using the upgrade scripts.
			Associated ticket is #1003

Looking at release dates it should have got into PostGIS 2.0.0
and was missing in 1.5.3:

  PostGIS 2.0.0 (2012/04/03) before PostGIS 2.0.1 (2019/12/19)
  PostGIS 1.5.3 (2011/06/25) before PostGIS 2.0.0 (2019/12/19)

Latest 1.5 series release was 1.5.9, but even in the stable-1.5
branch there's no reference to that ticket. Shall we fix ? :)

--strk;