Re: Bug#694778: RFS: tcpflow/1.3.0-1 [ITA] TCP flow recorder

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>, 2013-01-06, 15:21:
> > > you bump the Standards-Version but do not mention which (if any) 
> > > changes were needed for that.
> > In 99% cases, there are no changes needed,

93% of all statistics are made up.

> > so it's pointless to spam the changelog, and if some changes did 
> > indeed occur, they are not really related to the policy itself (merely 
> > required by it).
> >
> > Noting policy bumps had some miniscule reason before lintian started 
> > shouting, but nowadays, it is NOT bumping that could be notable.
>
> Yes, normally no changes are needed. But people that we sponsor need to 
> know that they have to CHECK if they can update the standard. They can 
> express this knowledge by writing in the changelog that they did not 
> need to make any changes. So I am in favor of having this in the 
> changelog.

ACK. Whenever I see:

|  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.4.5.

I read it as:

|  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.4.5, because Lintian yelled at me;
|    but actually I have no idea what I'm doing.

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Jakub Wilk