[Pkg-jed-commit] r701 - jed/branches/0.99.19/debian

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* 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