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Re: lilo: bad changelog entry violates Social Contract



On Tue, 06 Aug 2002, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:06:12AM +0000, Lazarus Long wrote:
> > They are meant to *document* *what has CHANGED* so that users of
> > apt-listchanges can make appropriate decisions as to whether or not to
> > allow an upgrade to continue, or to cancel it.  
> 
> The changelog told you that it's a new upstream version and that it
> closes a particular bug.

I want to know what the bug was without having to go online.

|  * New upstream version (closes: #7321232).
|    - Closes: #123456: ignores config file
|    - Closes: #987732: evil default colors in menu
|  * Fix Build-Depends (closes: #99833).

Is that too much to ask?
					yours,
					peter

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