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Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!



On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:58:01AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
[...]
> >  Btw., your line for "Upstream fix: closes:" is not very helpful for the
> > bug submitters neither. They'd have to check their records to see what
> > this bug really was. Please add informations on what was fixed so it can
> > be seen offline, too.
> 
> I really don't see the point in this. Submitters always have a copy of their
> report, so they have evrything they need.
[...]

Which does not help everybody else at all, who have just
the meaningless changelog and are using apt-listchanges to read it
before installation.

Putting just numbers in the changelog makes it list of links, that is
completely useless if you are offline.
                           cu andreas



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