[Pkg-jed-commit] r701 - jed/branches/0.99.19/debian
G. Milde
milde at users.sourceforge.net
Mon May 21 06:55:22 UTC 2007
On 19.05.07, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-19 00:33]:
> > > Does the policy permit to remove non-vital parts of earlier 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.
Agreed as well. What we should do, though, is looking carefully at the
newest changelog entry before uploading.
* Entries (or part of entries) that were there for the developers (or
packers) interest but are not informative for the user should be
removed or shortened at this point.
* Sequential changes of one feature between 2 uploads should be merged
into one topic.
Guenter
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