On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 at 12:54:28PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > Changelogs are often very verbose, with an entry for every change made > to every file (hi Branden). The idea is to make debconf notes (which are > intrusive, confusing and unnecessary) go away (or at least change into > debconf "warnings" which are more along the lines of what they're > intended for iirc) but still make it easy for people to read important > news, like file format breakage. > > If NEWS data were interspersed with changelog entries, it could be > difficult for people to read it if they weren't running apt-listchanges > (which presumably would separate them out) (and we can't expect > everybody to run apt-listchanges). Having an easily readable file, like > NEWS.Debian, which is also machine-readable, like the changelog format, > would give us the best of both worlds, without the disgustingness of > debconf notes (of which I too am guilty). > Couldn't we just highlight important things by: A) Butting them at the top of the changelog AND/OR B) Bulletizing them some how? -- Phil PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ | gpg --import
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