Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
>
> You have no idea whether these changes were made by the Debian maintainer or
> by upstream, and neither do I. The changelog contains no information at all
> about how the bugs were closed.
>
> (this is what some of us see as a problem)
Well if they were fixed by upstream changes they should be clearly marked
as such:
New upstream release (closes: #xxx).
Otherwise the changes that fixed them must be Debian changes and hence
must be documented. Where is the problem with that?
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