Hi, IMHO it's a good idea to follow the requirements of ftp-master, it's a good practice that get used the new devoloppers to made the things in the right way, I understand the issues of this in the changelogs, but I think it's funny to see after many years the mistakes made attempting to made my first debian package (when I've adopted my first package I thought this issue mandatory). I believe that this problem is only for the first packets, then it is begun to make some most accurate jobs. I also think also that this can get used the new developers to write good changelogs and to avoid a RFS for very preliminary works. however I repeat, IMHO :) cheers, freancesco Il giorno dom, 15/07/2007 alle 13.40 +0200, Bart Martens ha scritto: > 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 -- Francesco Namuri francesco(at)namuri(dot)it http://namuri.it/ id gpg key: 21A4702A accipiter@jabber.org
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