Re: Changelog policy being ignored

[Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>]

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> The normal maintainer can of course choose not to apply the diff.
> However, we should say that:
> 
>  * The person making the non-maintainer release should provide a
> description of all the separate bugs that they fix.
> 
>  * The normal maintainer should do at least one of
>    - apply the diff
>    - read the diff and decide on each part of it themselves
>    - read the description of the patches and ensure that they fix
>      each problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release.
> 
> Perhaps this should be incorporated into our policy ?

I believe it should.

	Martin.


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