Merged from trunk 5785:5786

Document namespace sanitizing (genone)

svn path=/main/branches/prefix/; revision=5809

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 222b0c5623da37015408a9ecc7eaac08b959623b..d0d6886aebb83fc00aed2bc94c6c5b416f53f128 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ portage-2.1.3
 
 * Allow per-module setting of PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES
 * Add ** as new token for package.keywords to bypass the keyword visibility layer
+* Namespace sanitizing: move all portage related code into portage.* namespace,
+  rename portage_foo modules to portage.foo (but keep symlinks for compability)
 
 portage-2.1.2
 -------------

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 26d95a9cdf226b67930bca171a3ad172470ec686..88335040339cec2e9cc8c6e0aba9e1327450c6a2 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 Release Notes; upgrade information mainly.
 Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS
 
+portage-2.1.3
+==================================
+
+* The python namespace for portage has been sanitized, all portage related code
+  is now contained within the portage namespace. External script should be updated
+  accordingly, though links exist for backward compability.
+
 portage-2.1.2
 ==================================