Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>
> In this case, I have yet to see why providing users of the
> list-changes output a better idea of what has changed in the package
> is a technically inferior solution.
I agree with you for Debian changes, after all, it is the Debian changelog.
Still, nobody has convinced me that there is any point to include upstream
changes there though.
Perhaps I can put it another way. The reason it's wrong to have a
changelog entry like this
* Closes: #xxx.
is not because that it closes #xxx without a good reason. In fact,
for the purposes of closing #xxx, it is entirely satisfactory as
this is equivalent to stating that bug #xxx is fixed in the version
that contains this changelog entry.
The reason it's bad is because it implies that this bug is fixed
by a Debian change, and that Debian change has not been documented
in the Debian changelog.
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