Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:02 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:23:48 +0200
> Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 10:33 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > I think it is easier for everyone if every change
> > > during sponsorship gets a new Debian version, so if you need me to
> > > sponsor packages, each upload to mentors.debian.net must use a new
> > > Debian version.
> > 
> > That makes debian/changelog written by newbie packagers needlessly
> > long.
> 
> Why is the length of the changelog of concern?

Readability and relevance for the uploaded package.

> 
> If the same items are detailed overall, it is only three extra lines
> per change - one for the version line, one blank, one timestamp.

Something like this ?

packagename (0.1.0-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated debian/watch to recognize both ".tar.gz" and ".tar.bz2",
    now revealing the real latest upstream release.

 -- John Doe <johndoe@debian.org>  Sun, 12 May 2007 23:52:26 +0200

packagename (0.1.0-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated debian/watch to replace any "-(rc\d+)$" by "~$1".

 -- John Doe <johndoe@debian.org>  Sun, 12 May 2007 21:52:26 +0200

packagename (0.1.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated debian/watch to replace "-rc4" by "~rc4".

 -- John Doe <johndoe@debian.org>  Sun, 11 May 2007 21:52:26 +0200

packagename (0.1.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed debian/watch again.  Now tested with "uscan --report-status".

 -- John Doe <johndoe@debian.org>  Sun, 10 May 2007 21:52:26 +0200

packagename (0.1.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed debian/watch.

 -- John Doe <johndoe@debian.org>  Sun, 08 May 2007 21:52:26 +0200

packagename (0.1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added debian/watch.

 -- John Doe <johndoe@debian.org>  Sun, 06 May 2007 21:52:26 +0200


It's not a huge problem, but it's not so nice to have all beginners
mistakes logged forever for the whole world to see.

Regards,

Bart Martens