Re: Modifications of the changelog.
Hi,
On Di, 24 Apr 2012, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.
But there are good reasons to do it at some point, like a new
upstream actually fixed some bugs, and it was realized only afterwards.
So I close the bug per email with a version header indicating the
version where it is fixed, and later I change the old changelog
entry
* new upstream release (Closes: ....)
and add a few more bugs there.
I consider this reasonable, but in general, I agree it is better to
refrain from too wild rewritting of changelog entries.
Best wishes
Norbert
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