Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com> writes: > 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 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. Not if I'm trying to see what has changed *before* installing the package. With many of the Debian package manager tools (apt-listchanges, aptitude, maybe Synaptic?, even the packages.qa.debian.org site) I can see ‘debian/changelog’ before making the decision to install or not. If all I see there is “New upstream version” I am no wiser as to what new upstream changes will rock my system. -- \ “I went to the cinema, it said ‘Adults: $5.00, Children $2.50’. | `\ So I said ‘Give me two boys and a girl.’” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney
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