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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-19 00:33]:

> > 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.

Agreed.

-- 
Rafael