Re: ITO: LILO
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?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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