Re: lilo: bad changelog entry violates Social Contract
I demand that Peter Palfrader may or may not have written...
> On Tue, 06 Aug 2002, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:06:12AM +0000, Lazarus Long wrote:
>>> They are meant to *document* *what has CHANGED* so that users of
>>> apt-listchanges can make appropriate decisions as to whether or not to
>>> allow an upgrade to continue, or to cancel it.
>> The changelog told you that it's a new upstream version and that it closes
>> a particular bug.
> I want to know what the bug was without having to go online.
Hmm. Using apt-get => probably online already (install from CD/DVD aside),
so...
> | * New upstream version (closes: #7321232).
> | - Closes: #123456: ignores config file
> | - Closes: #987732: evil default colors in menu
> | * Fix Build-Depends (closes: #99833).
> Is that too much to ask?
I wouldn't expect so. But it occurs to me that those 'closes' items could be
converted into links, should apt-listchanges be configured to use $BROWSER to
display the changelogs.
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