Re: Cleaning out useless debian/changelog entries
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:30:13PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On tisdagen den 2 oktober 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > > I'm taking over a package (pike7.6) that up to when it was orphaned got
> > > an automated changelog entry each time the upstream build number was
> > > incremented. Hence debian/changelog contains tens of completely
> > > informationless entries ("The latest cvs snapshot", nothing more). I'm
> > > thinking about deleting those which don't correspond to an actual upload
> > > to Debian. Would that be acceptable, or is debian/changelog _strictly_
> > > prepend-only?
> >
> > IMHO it's not strictly prepend-only. You are allowed to correct mistakes
> > in previous entries. But it should strictly document the history of your
> > package. After a quick search thourgh the pike7.6 changelog I have not
> > found any such entries which do not correspond to an actual upload.
>
> I compared the changelog to the PTS log ("Latest News"). Is the PTS log
> incomplete (after 7.6.24-1, I mean)?
I don't know. I only looked at the log and assumed that every new
version entry also corresponded to an actual upload. It seems that
either the PTS is wrong or some versions were never uploaded to Debian.
Were these packages published anywhere else? If not I think it's OK to
delete these entries.
Gaudenz
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