Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:31:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I wholeheartedly agree with this, and would go further: even if there > are no Debian BTS reports to close, you should *still* give the > highlights of a new upstream version in the ‘debian/changelog’. > > I'm utterly uninformed by a bare “New upstream release.”; of course > it's a new upstream release, I can already see that from the version > number. This is a changelog, tell me *what changed* in this new upstream > version. > I don't see the need for this. For most packages upstream's changelog is installed in /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/, which will (hopefully) explain all you need to know. Of course, when you're closing bugs, I agree that there should be more verbosity than "New upstream release". Cheers, Ryan -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanryan52@gmail.com
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