Re: Changelogs (Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e"))
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> > What if the bug was reported after the new Debian package was
>> > uploaded? Why does it suddenly stop being a significant change?
This is meant to be a rhetorical question.
> My answer to Herbert would be "it would be nice, but unfortunately time
> travel is not yet among our capabilities".
Which just proves that listing things in the changelog on the basis of
bug reports is meaningless. Listing things that actually have changed
in Debian is what it was meant for in the first place.
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