Re: d/changelog and experimental
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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.
> Well... I don't think there's anything good that can be done about the
> entries about the unstable uploads that have happened in between...
Yeah, that's true. Upload history is a graph and I have no idea how to
linearize that. In that scenario, I'm not sure I have any
recommendations.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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