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Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)



On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > * On the first upload, debian/changelog should have just one entry.
> >   This is somewhat clumsy if you have a history of this package in
> >   your private/local repository (like me with debs of kbtin on
> >   SourceForge), but I remember someone being shouted upon for this. 
> >   I can't recall the reason, but I guess someone can say what it was. 
> 
> I'm not sure about a specific incident, but in general I'd say that for
> an otherwise unreleased package, more than one changelog entry is quite
> redundant. There's no reason to bother people with the different
> versions that never left your hard drive, so why include it? Keep it
> simple.
Since, unfortunately, some people maintain packages for quite a long
time before they get uploaded, even if they persued an upload from the
beginning.  A changelog with historical information for that period
adds information at low cost, so I wouldn't hesitate to keep it.

Justin



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