Re: fs-uae_2.4.1+ds-2~bpo70+1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> [2014-05-21 10:42:05 CEST]:
> Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> writes:
> > 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)?
> 
> Including previous changelog entries also ensures that the .changes file
> has a Closes field which lists the bugs being fixed by the upload;
> ttbomk at the moment the backports archive doesn't forward this
> information to the bts to update the version tracking graph, but it
> could be a useful addition.

 That reasoning is moot.  TTBOMK the BTS does parse the complete
changelog anyway, not just the changes mails.  I noticed a bug or two
that were unarchived because an experimental upload which was pushed to
unstable later didn't contain the closes which were in an unstable
update before.

 So long,
Rhonda
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