On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:15:00AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > 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. Ok, after a quick look through the existing NEWS.Debian files on my box, I concede that this is the way most developers use the file. I still maintain that the information provided was useful, but it could probably go in some other place. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
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