On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:15:42 -0500 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > No sooner do we get support for NEWS.Debian files than they start being > abused, just like the debconf note templates that inspired NEWS.Debian > support in the first place. <snip> > How does this information matter at all to the typical Debian user? > What can the typical Debian user do about this? If paul ends up being > unsuitable for release in sarge, a release-critical bug should be filed > against it. <snip> I agree, this is not information the administrator likely cares about. If they do, they are in all likelyhood participants in a more appropriate forum (such as the one you mentioned, debian-devel@lists.debian.org). Moreover, I'd also like to point out phpmyadmin's current NEWS.Debian which is very long and which appears mainly to be a distillation of upstream CVS logs. Assuming every package did this for every new upstream release, administrators would end up reading more text from NEWS.Debian entries than they would from changelog.Debian entries. This is ENTIRELY DEFEATING THE PURPOSE OF NEWS.DEBIAN. :)
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