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Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements



On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 16:47 +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007, Bart Martens wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> --cut--
> > Something like this ?
> >
> > packagename (0.1.0-8) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> >   * Updated debian/watch to recognize both ".tar.gz" and ".tar.bz2",
> >     now revealing the real latest upstream release.
> --cut-history--
> > It's not a huge problem, but it's not so nice to have all beginners
> > mistakes logged forever for the whole world to see.
> 
> Then you are trying to cheat the world behind the scene, right ? ... in the 
> name of PR ? If that is the real history, let be it. 

No, it's not about "cheat" and "pr" and changing "the real history", but
for me it's about what I wrote in my previous messages and about some
very reasonable (numbered) part Colin wrote.

> 
> OTOH, as a sponsee, I won't work with sponsors who force me to edit the past 
> in the name of spurious beautification ;-)

No, this debate is not about forcing to summarize debian/changelog, but
about forcing to preserve everything in debian/changelog during the
entire sponsoring process.




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