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

[Jörg Sommer]

Hallo G.,

G. Milde schrieb am Fri 18. May, 18:34 (+0200):
> On 18.05.07, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-18 15:34]:
> 
> > > > Oh, I see.  I did not think you referred to the "Simplified..." message,
> ...
> > > > Anyway, I do not see problems with logging such changes in
> > > > debian/changelog.
> > > 
> > > I think it's useless for package users and blows up the changelog.
> 
> > 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? 

A _footnote_ in section 4.4 says:

[1]  Mistakes in changelogs are usually best rectified by making a new
     changelog entry rather than "rewriting history" by editing old
     changelog entries.

And this is my personal opinion, too. We should not remove entries from
changelog. Correcting mistakes in writing is permitted, but not rewriting
the changelog.

> We could even go through the changelog and weed out crufts.

I'm against doing this.

Bye, Jörg.
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