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Re: d/changelog and experimental



Hi,

I think that every published versions must have an entry in d/changelog

If unstable version follows some experimental ones, then I prefer to have the full entries.

This can also help to debug when an other package has a ">= exp-version"


Le 3 décembre 2019 08:21:12 GMT+01:00, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> a écrit :
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.

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