Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)
Hi Jonathan,
On Thu, January 8, 2009 07:26, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire
> <debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> wrote:
>> I have uploaded whohas 0.22-1 to m.d.n, which is a new upstream
>> integrating a lot of the bugs, and some tweaks to the packaging because
>> of his changes.
Great. As I think this can be very useful to Debian developers, I have
added a news item to the DeveloperNews queue, which will be posted to
debian-devel-annnounce sometime in the near future:
http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews
Feel free to update/change it.
>> I've also included a NEWS file detailing the patches
>> that are still active.
>
> I don't think that is an appropriate use of NEWS.Debian, documenting
> them in the patch headers should be enough.
Agreed; NEWS.Debian is for changes to the package that are relevant to end
users. This information is indeed most appropriate in the individual patch
headers.
> Listing all the distros supported may not be a good idea because this
> will change over time and thus add work for those translating Debian
> package descriptions.
I think that's actually rather informative as it gives a good overview of
the breadth of the package and what kind of distributions it searches.
It's not critical that the list is exactly up to date, so I don't think it
would be a problem if some translations were to get a little behind on the
most recent version. So I would leave it in.
cheers,
Thijs
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