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Re: d/changelog and experimental



Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com> writes:

> What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to
> unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ?

> It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all experimental
> changelog entries, and add a new one for unstable.

This is the typical practice, including all the intermediate experiments
or false starts in experimental.

I sympathize with wanting to clean up some of that, but as a project we
generally have decided to live with that.  Most users don't read the full
changelog anyway (user-visible notes should be in NEWS instead, which are
shown to more people via apt-listchanges), and removing versions from the
history has bad effects on the bug-tracking system, historical archives,
etc.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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