Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 01:09:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Once that feature is used, the changelog is no longer just changelog but
> > also the contents of the message that closes the bug. If people want to
> > avoid that, they shouldn't use the feature.
>
> Yes, but that doesn't change the desirable contents of the changelog. It
> should list the changes made, nothing more or less. If you need to give
> further instructions to users it should be mailed separately to the BTS
> or put in the package's documentation.
That's good, but if the additional documentation is missing, there's still
a problem, and this situation tends to happen.
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