Re: Modifications of the changelog.

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

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > [modifying previous changelog entries] breaks the entirely
> > reasonable expectation: that a changelog only ever accumulates
> > entries for the latest release, and nothing in earlier releases has
> > changed since the last time the recipient read them.
>
> I think the absolute prohibition takes things a bit too far.

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> What is that expectation for ?  I find it dogmatic written like this.

I'm not seeing where what I wrote is an absolute prohibition, nor
dogmatic. You both read it that way, though, so I apologise for
communicating poorly.

To say it more plainly: Modifying previous changelog entries, while not
prohibited, does break an implicit user expectation. I think that
expectation is reasonable to an extent, and breaking it is costly to the
same extent.

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