Re: libgtk2.0-0: changelog.Debian.gz is not an upstream changelog
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> On 16 Apr 2006, Christian Marillat uttered the following:
>
>> Here is the relevant policy :
>>
>> ,---- | Changes in the Debian version of the package should be
>> briefly explained in the Debian changelog file
>> `debian/changelog'.[1] This includes modifications made in the
>> Debian package compared to the upstream one as well as other
>> changes and updates to the package. [2]
>
> So changes made in packaging are relevant, as well as "other"
> changes -- which caninclude significant changes upstream. The bottom
> line is not one of NIH -- the changelog should contain enough
> information for the target audience to decide whether or not to
> install the upgrade.
A copy and paste from the NEW file is certainly useless.
The Debian changelog :
,----
| * New upstream version:
| Bugs fixed:
| - Expander disclosure button is too small
| - gtk_image_clear doesn't cause redraw
| - typo in configure.in yields suspicious warning
| - gtk_icon_view_set_cursor causes Segmentation fault
| - garbage output of --help in non UTF-8 locale
| - GtkNotebook does not destroy its children on destroy()
| - TreeView DnD between-row highlight colo
| - Gtk-Criticals occur when scrolling a text_view that is not realized
| - Hidden menubar still activates submenus with kbd
| - GtkTreeItem broken
| - Clean up button press handling (use one-grab-op-at-a-time pattern)
| - broken scrolling when selecting
| - GTK+ File-chooser dialog crashes
| - Nautilus crashes when dragging icons to another screen
| - mixed line separators confuse gtk_text_iter_ends_line
| - Textview child is covered by window border
| - gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type(): What image types are allowed?
| - Missing progress bar label
| - Fix a problem which caused grab-notify signal to be missed in some cases
`----
And here the NEW entries for this release :
,----
| 325699 Expander disclosure button is too small [Brad Taylor]
| 334657 gtk_image_clear doesn't cause redraw
| 334774 typo in configure.in yields suspicious
| warning [Peter Breitenlohner]
| 335001 gtk_icon_view_set_cursor causes
| Segmentation fault [Emmanuel Rodriguez]
| 335129 garbage output of --help in non UTF-8 locale [Christian Persch]
| 319032 GtkNotebook does not destroy its children
| on destroy() [Yevgen Muntyan]
| 334906 TreeView DnD between-row highlight color [Ian McDonald]
| 335717 Gtk-Criticals occur when scrolling a text_view
| that is not realized [Nicolas Setton]
| 336200 Hidden menubar still activates submenus with kbd
| [Bastian Nocera]
| 336254 GtkTreeItem broken [Sven Herzberg]
| 74620 Clean up button press handling (use
| one-grab-op-at-a-time pattern) [Li Yuan]
| 323862 broken scrolling when selecting [Benjamin Berg]
| 330617 GTK+ File-chooser dialog crashes
| 325751 Nautilus crashes when dragging icons to
| another screen [Hylke van der Schaaf]
| 337022 mixed line separators confuse
| gtk_text_iter_ends_line [Paolo Borelli]
| 336796 Textview child is covered by window border [Yevgen Muntyan]
| 335536 gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type():
| What image types are allowed? [Murray Cumming]
| 336645 Missing progress bar label [Stanislav Brabec]
| Fix a problem which caused grab-notify
| signal to be missed in some cases [Matthias Clasen]
`----
Christian
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