Re: Modifying debian/changelog entries

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Noah Slater wrote:

>   * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your
>     email address, when you do a new upload, is it okay to modify all of the old
>     changelog entries to use the new email address?

I wouldn't.

>   * Is it okay to occasionally modify old changelog entries for clarity and
>     style, typos and such like, as long as you don't change the semantics?

The occassional fix for the previous few changelog entries is probably
fine.

Cheers,
weasel
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