Re: d/changelog and experimental
On 12/3/19 8:21 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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'm all in favour of keeping the upload history, but recently I had to
do a major rework of the packaging in experimental while updating
unstable at the same time. So over several weeks, unstable got various
cherry-picks from experimental and at some point a big merge happened,
which made it more or less impossible to keep the changelog from
experimental as lots of changes would be documented twice and, even
worse, there would be a mix of version X and X+1 entries in the
changelog as the uploads were not linear.
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