On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:35:28PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:05:52AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 11:37 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >So what do you expect exactly - that a developer will diff the upstream > > >code to describe exactly how the bug was fixed in excruciating detail in > > >the debian/changelog? > > I'm not Adam but my own hope would be that if a bug is closed by > > upstream then some note as to what has been fixed would appear in the > > changelog - "Now correctly handles $THING", for example. This is much > > more friendly and helpful to read in the changelog, particularly in > > cases where there are several possible approaches to solving the problem. > Yes I expect you would find that information in the upstream changelog - > why would you expect to find it in the debian/changelog also? Because the debian/changelog should document the changes in the package *as pertain to Debian*, and anything that ended up as a bug report in the BTS pertains to Debian. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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