Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Totally equivalent when we're discussing about closure messages sent
>> to -done.
>
> A message to -done means nothing to anyone except the bug submitter. The
> three seconds I spend writing a useful changelog entry make it useful to me,
> the submitter, and anyone else interested.
You're still not getting my argument.
We already have a much better criterion for what debian/changelog
should include that does not depend on unrelated events like bug
filing/analysis/closure. That criterion is to document each and
every Debian change in debian/changelog.
Using bug closure as a criterion for debian/changelog annotation
is inferior for two reasons:
1) It causes non-Debian changes to be included in debian/changelog
based on purely external factors, i.e., BTS activities.
2) For Debian changes it is subsumed by the other criterion. In fact,
it is weaker than the Debian change criterion since it does not demand
all Debian changes to be listed.
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