Re: fs-uae_2.4.1+ds-2~bpo70+1_amd64.changes REJECTED
On Tue, 20 May 2014, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 May 2014, Romain Francoise wrote:
> >
> >> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > Argh, forgot the -v option for debbuild. Fixed upload will be
> >> > there in a minute.
> >>
> >> Hopefully some day the lintian patch in #732225 will get picked up and
> >> this won't happen anymore...
> >
> > Or we could just get rid of this nonsensical, make-work requirement.
>
> To be honest, I've never understood the purpose of the "include
> changelog entries since stable in your .changes" rule. The only place
> where they're visible is debian-backports-changes@l.d.o; what
> difference does it make to subscribers of that list if _all_ changelog
> entries since stable are sent to the list or not, and is it worth the
> extra cost and hassle (in terms of additional developer time spent on
> re-uploading packages that fail this requirement)?
There are several users reading the changes list to see what changed in a
backport. Same counts for me (ftpmaster) when reviewing packages.
A few months ago I made a survey if we should remove that requirement but it
had no majority.
Alex
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