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Re: Handing of debian/changelog on stable version imports



[Insofar as it was also targeted at me]

On Thursday, 16 June 2022 21:22:02 CEST Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> How other feel about that?

Depends on what you want/like to achieve.

Is it about informing/reminding of the rules?
(I didn't know they were written down or that there were tools for it, so thx)

Or is it about 'questioning' them? IOW should we still abide by them or do you 
want to propose a rule change?

> I would suggest/propose: whenever we really have time

... do 'we' ever?
IMO 'having time' is actually a question of prioritization.

I lack the knowledge (in several areas) to even make/propose stable version 
imports, but it seems like quite a time-consuming job.

My perception is this, which may be entirely inaccurate:
Doing a stable version import is normally a lot of work, but with updates like 
5.18.3 it's (practically) undoable.

> if time is scarse then stick with just importing the full changelog, but 
> at a very minimum add known CVE identifers (helps the security team) and
> bug closer and wrap the line lenghts (debmutate can help).

I agree with the 'very minimum', but one could question whether the rest is 
also worth the time. It is informative *to me*, but I don't know if the time 
needed vs the value it provides is in good balance. And whether people/me 
should use other tools for that instead or possibly an alternative form which 
consumes less time.

So: Depends on what you want/like to achieve :-)

Cheers,
  Diederik

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