[pkg-wpa-devel] [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 04:13:25 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

>> git log v0.9.8..v0.9.9 > ChangeLog
>> 
>> I've attached an example output of this on the iw package for example.
>> Paul, does Debian packaging not care the format the ChangeLog is on?
>
> FWIW, I do not think all of this is necessary, the information stored in the
> git repository is rich and readily available. We're getting pedantic here.

One audience Debian tries to target is people with poor connectivity.
And for example if being in the wrong regulatory domain is making your
internet access not work, it can be very useful to know what changed
since the last time it worked.

FWIW the changelog script used for the git package produces very nice
results.

http://repo.or.cz/w/debian-git.git/blob/HEAD:/debian/changelog.upstream.sh

It takes a list of tags in debian/versions.upstream and puts its
result in debian/changelog.upstream.

To avoid having to write the versions.upstream, it is possible to
derive that from the changelog.  Here’s an ugly example:

http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/xz.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog.upstream.sh;hb=HEAD

I’m sure it could be simplified.

The git changelog script uses shortlog, which produces very nice, readable
because the authors write nice, self-contained commit subjects.  The xz
changelog script uses “git log --stat” since the messages sometimes require
knowledge of what files changed to make sense.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan