Re: backports from acidbase and cfengine2
Keith Edmunds <keith@midnighthax.com> wrote:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>> But anyway, for the third category, it would be nice to have a rationale
>> "why you might want this backport".
>
> Isn't that the purpose of the changelog? No one else can know why YOU
> might want to install a given backport, but the changelog will tell you
> what has, er, changed and you can decide for yourself.
>From the original mail by Steffen:
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| For instance the -v option of dpkg-buildpackage is
| very useful and should be a standard for backporters, to reflect the changes.
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If that would be too long, it might make sense to add a
backport-specific text on top of the newest changelog. And it would be
great if one could look at this even before installing it (and without
looking up the testing version on p.d.o).
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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