Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
> This is starting to happen far too often for my comfort, so I feel the need
> to rant a bit.
>
> After I took the time to track down this bug and send a patch to the BTS,
> when you finally fixed the bug a year later, the least you could do is to
> actually document the change in the changelog. Is this really too much to
> ask? The changelog is not a bug-closing device, it's a place to document
> changes.
>
> This section in the developer's reference has a good set of guidelines for
> writing useful changelog entries, and I would be forever grateful if anyone
> who has not read it already would do so.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-debian-changelog
I'm adding a link to this page in debian-changelog-mode.el (An Emacs
mode for debian changelog files).
DDs that use Emacs should really install the dpkg-dev-el package
in order to try using this mode.
Peter
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