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Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!



On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:12:22PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> I can. 
> You wrote that you have "to list each change in the upstream
> changelog" to know which bug can be declared as closed. Right?

That is what i wrote, but is not what i meant: it have a difference meaning if
you take it out of the context, but my english is not so good to commit that i
explained my self. I'll rephrase:

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You people told me that:
- If i make a change to a package i've to list my changes in the package
  changelog (Matt Zimmerman, no one ever objected this).
- If i build a new upstream, i've to list each change in the upstream
  changelog that let me declare a bug as closed; change that does not refer to
  the Debian package (but to the original upstream), and that i did not
  applied as part of my package working (because it was applied from the
  upstream).
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The second contradict the first, and does not follow what stated in policy
about debian chagelog file (13.7 an 5.3 of policy).

> Do you think that users should list "each change in the upstream
> changelog" to know how the bug they submitted as been closed?

If you mean "read" by the word "list", of course i do. First came the upstream
changelog, then the Debian one.

> So the only way you have to demonstrate it is to act as a child?

So the only way to confute my observation is to bring childish arguments to
the discussion?

> You have an easy solution: follow the 4. of the Debian social
> contract ( http://www.debian.org/social_contract ).

I'm already doing it in many ways and, untill now, no one has conviced me that
this would be a real improovement.

have a nice day.
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