[issue38004] Duplicated sections in changelog

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily <nad at python.org> added the comment:

I'm not sure what happened here or why we haven't noticed it before.  For example, it appears that the consolidated blurb file for the earliest example, 3.5.2rc1.rst, has not been modified since its original blurbification (in b902833f35efa1053f75d7b37769b27cb39e2682) and the sections are not sorted and consolidated properly there, i.e. Security entries, then Library, then Security again, etc etc. I"m assuming blurb requires all entries for a section to be contiguous. If so, we'll need to reorder the entries in the affected .rst files perhaps with blurb's aid.  Perhaps Larry has an insight on what the easiest approach might be to do that.

After fixing the .rst files for the affected releases, it would be a good time to forward port the current versions to later release branches and master so that the changelogs produced in newer releases is complete for older releases (forward port Misc/NEWS.d entries from 3.4 -> 3.5 -> 3.6 -> ... -> master).

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nosy: +larry
versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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