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Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse



On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:53:40AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> 	* New upstream version
> 	   - foo widget is no longer upside-down (Closes: Bug#123456)
> 	   - --colour argument now spelt correctly (Closes: Bug#123457)
> 	* Added Latin debconf templates (Closes: Bug#123458)
> 
> What's so confusing about this?

Given the proliferation of changelog entries which seem to exist only to
provide some padding for (Closes: ...) markers, apparently a lot.

(I don't accept the ignorance excuse; there's been a rant on -devel every
other week or so for a while now, an entire section in the developer's
reference, plenty of good examples, etc.)

-- 
 - mdz



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