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Re: NEWS.Debian abuse



On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:03:06PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:36:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > Please remove the entry from NEWS.Debian and do not do this again.
> > Users should not care about who maintains the package.
> 
> Why not?  

IMHO, NEWS.Debian should cover things the users should know in order to
successfully operate the package.  Knowing who is the maintainer does
not fall into this category.  If they cared about changes for the Debian
packaging, they would read up on it in changelog.Debian.gz.


Michael

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Michael Banck
Debian Developer
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