Re: Bizarre changelog entries in some gnome packages
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:48:54PM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
>> On Sunday 21 March 2004 02:27, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> > maintainer(s) can lose these changelog messages easily and then
>>
>> I don't think that should happen. Rewriting history is considered bad
>> practice. Add changes on top that make better packages.
>
> It's not rewriting history if the changelog didn't document history in
> the first place.
And on what basis do you decide what is history and what is not?
These malformed changelog entries are definitely a part of the
package's history.
--
Mathieu Roy
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