[Pkg-jed-commit] r701 - jed/branches/0.99.19/debian
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Fri May 18 16:48:06 UTC 2007
* G. Milde <milde at users.sourceforge.net> [2007-05-18 18:34]:
> > Fair enough, I will try to refrain myself in the future from documenting
> > such non-user-visible changes in the future.
>
> Does the policy permit to remove non-vital parts of earliere changelog
> entries in later versions?
I do not know whether Policy mentions this or not but it seems to be current
practice to change previous items in the changelog, although I have seen
this only for minor corrections and typos.
> Then we could keep less general topics in experimental or unstable and
> remove them before releasing to unstable.
>
> We could even go through the changelog and weed out crufts.
Yes, we could do it, provided that someone volunteers for the job.
In my own packages, I tend to have quite verbose debian/changelog. I
understand Jörg's argument about non-user-visible changes, but the entries
in debian/changelog are also useful for developers trying to understand the
history of the package. Well, you could argue that we have a SVN repository
with good log messages, so my argument would become moot :-(
--
Rafael
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