On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:59:04PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Right so let's say that I file a bug against package X, and the maintainer > closes it saying that it's fixed in version y. Are you saying that this > is useless? In the changelog, yes. In other contexts, often it isn't. For example, if a package maintainer can no longer reproduce a bug under reasonable conditions, there's nothing wrong with him sending a message to the -done address explaining this fact. Even in the case where one knows exactly which version of a package rendered the bug no-longer-reproducible, if one doesn't know *why* it's fixed, one shouldn't mention it in the changelog, because one cannot identify the solution. Changelogs exist to document changes, not black-box outputs. -- G. Branden Robinson | That's the saving grace of humor: Debian GNU/Linux | if you fail, no one is laughing at branden@debian.org | you. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- A. Whitney Brown
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