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Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!



On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:08:28AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:26:10PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Which does not help everybody else at all, who have just
> > the meaningless changelog and are using apt-listchanges to read it
> > before installation.
> 
> I don't see even this: are you warried about grave bugs? Use apt-listbugs.
> BTW, you can always grep the upstream changelog from the deb file using
> dpkg-extract.

The purpose of a changelog is to _log_ the _changes_ which were made to a
package, not just a bug-closing mechanism.

-- 
 - mdz



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