Re: RFC: Using git/collab-maint/PET for debian-mentors.

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure what “coordinating via notes at the top of
> > debian/changelog” means. Bear in mind that the changelog is
> > primarily for communicating package changes *to users* of those
> > packages.
>
> The Perl Group makes use of this: in the unreleased version of
> packages, we add notes to d/changelog telling what must still be done
[…]

> All of these notes are removed before the upload so they do not show
> up in the released packages.
>
> I think this is a very good method to communicate with other team
> members about the current state of packages.

I don't see the benefit of overloading the ‘debian/changelog’ file for
this. Wouldn't it be better to keep the purpose of that file as is, and
use a separate file (perhaps ‘debian/TODO’) for this separate purpose of
intra-team-only communication?

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Ben Finney