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Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!



On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 01:13:06PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> A changelog entry which says only Closes: #<bug> is worthless; it is the
> same as leaving the changelog empty and closing the bug by hand.
> 
> > Do you know how not to bother maintainers?
[...]
> This is not a bother to maintainers, and no amount of enhancement to
> apt-listchanges relieves the maintainer's responsibility to document his
> changes.

/me rises from the pew

Amen, brother!  AMEN!

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    The best place to hide something is
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    in documentation.
branden@debian.org                 |    -- Ethan Benson
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |

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