Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:34:58PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> > If I report "segmentation fault in ls", I--as a user of ls, not a
> > developer--couldn't care less about why it was segfaulting or how the
> > bug was fixed; I only care that it's been fixed. If a developer wants
> > to spend their limited time researching how the bug was fixed and
> > summarizing it in a changelog, great, but it's certainly not something I'd
> > expect everyone to do.
>
> It's not about summarizing how the bug was fixed. It's about summarizing the
> bug *itself* in the changelog.
I certainly prefer it if the changelog tells how the bug was fixed. This
documents the difference between:
* New upstream release
- Removed the entire subsystem which contained this bug (Closes: #xxx)
* New upstream release
- Made the "foo" option create its file with sane permissions (Closes: #xxx)
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- mdz
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