On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:58:13PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > As an example of how a nice changelog is written, see below the recently > uploaded changelog for dpkg 1.10.11. I have a cosmetic nitpick: :) > dpkg (1.10.11) unstable; urgency=low [...] > * Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>: > Apply patch, to handle missing infodir.bak, and empty files. Closes: > #196361 [...] > * Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>: > Fix inverted test of eof in parsedb, while looking for eof after > field name. Closes: #198218 I found these hard to scan visually. I think it's probably because of the erratic right margin caused by breaking line after the submitter's email adddress regardless of whether any of the trailing text can fit on the rest of the line. I wouldn't mention this except that I had to pause and think about why I was consciously aware of not being able to read your changelog entry as fast as I read other peoples'. Just a suggestion; if you don't like it, I guess I'll just read your changelogs more slowly in the future. Thanks for your exemplary care in making changelog entries that are useful for more than just auto-closing bugs. I noticed from the latest kaffe upload that Ean Schuessler still doesn't get it. I guess he doesn't feel it's the package maintainer's responsibility to retitle a bug report that was given a shitty title by the submitter. In fact I wonder what, exactly, Ean thinks a Debian package maintainer *is* responsible for. -- G. Branden Robinson | The power of accurate observation Debian GNU/Linux | is frequently called cynicism by branden@debian.org | those who don't have it. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- George Bernard Shaw
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