Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:21, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > The only disagreement is with what to do with upstream changes that
> > happen to close Debian bugs.
>
> Is there any chance of everyone agreeing to leave it up to the
> maintainer to decide whether or not to document such changes
> in the Debian changelog? A big advantage of such an agreement
> would be that it would reduce the amount of time wasted on
> discussions like this one.
You could submit the same argument about the Debian Policy Manual, and half
of the other discussions on the mailing lists. There is value in having
consistent practices for maintainers.
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- mdz
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