[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#665326: Bug#665326: Bug#665326: Bug#665326: confused by disapparance of octave-depends (nothing in changelog)

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Fri Mar 23 23:38:52 UTC 2012


* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-03-23 19:40]:

> > Concerning where to put the removal notice: NEWS.Debian does not seem
> > appropriate because we don't want to tell all octave users about
> > something which is used at most by a few packagers; I would rather add a
> > line to changelog.Debian: technically it belongs to the entry for the
> > 3.4.3-1 version, but I am not sure it is acceptable to modify an old
> > entry afterwards.
> > 
> > Thomas and Rafael: what do you think?
> 
> Just put it in an old changelog entry. People will look at the changelog
> and I don't think it really matters when the entry was added; just that
> the version is the correct one and people have a chance to find it.

I agree with Thomas' suggestion.

Rafael



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