I find changelog entries like those I am listing below to be very, very unhelpful. They are truly bizarre. I do not want to have to piece together changelog entries from loads of different packages to discover some silly hidden message. Also, messages such as "GNOME suck" leave me with the opinion that a package maintainer does not care for their packages. (Maybe if I pieced together all the bits I would get the real context and see the funny joke). I was under the impression (maybe I am wrong) that changelog entries should say what the maintainer has changed since the last upload. I read changelogs before upgrading packages (with apt-listchanges) because I want to know what has changed and if there are any big changes for which I should be prepared. These entries certainly do not give me the impression that the package maintainer is taking things seriously. Someone looking at these package changelogs who does not know Debian already may well be put off ever bothering to use it in case all maintainers are like this. A bit more professionalism would be nice. Thank you, Stephen Quinney === bizarre changelog entries === libwnck (2.4.0.1-3) unstable; urgency=low * packages. -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:36:52 +0100 scrollkeeper (0.3.14-7) unstable; urgency=low * This will -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:40:46 +0100 startup-notification (0.5-6) unstable; urgency=low * certainly make -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:46:59 +0100 yelp (2.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=low * some people happy. -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:48:55 +0100 libgnomecanvas (2.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low * more and -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:15:26 +0100 libgnomeui (2.4.0.1-8) unstable; urgency=low * my GNOME -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:26:58 +0100 libart-lgpl (2.3.16-2) unstable; urgency=low * I wrote. -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:06:24 +0100 libgnome (2.4.0-6) unstable; urgency=low * GNOME suck -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:12:29 +0100 gnome-desktop (2.4.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * Debian.changelog.gz in -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:36:08 +0100 gnome-panel (2.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low * the right -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:39:39 +0100 gnome-session (2.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low * order to -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:50:59 +0100 gnome-session (2.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:47:13 +0100
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