Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!
Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> wrote:
>
> It's pointless to go through this again. Instead, I'll offer a concrete
> example of the confusion this can create (the original submitter asks
> for clarification of how the bug was fixed):
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/188740
That's a documentation issue. debian/changelog is not the place for
documenting random features.
>> As I have said before, this is incomplete: only bugs that were reported
>> and identified are listed, and redundant: these changes should be in
>> the upstream changelog already.
>
> I don't see anything particularly helpful in the upstream changelog for
> the above example.
Please do not generalise the practice of individual upstream authors.
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