Re: how to document removed Build-Depends in debian/changelog (Re: viennacl at mentors)

[Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com>]

On 07/15/2012 01:49 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:25:14AM +0000, Bart Martens a écrit :
>>
>> I would mention this in debian/changelog :
>>
>>   * debian/control: No longer Build-Depends: poppler-utils, asciidoc, lynx.
>>
>> But I don't know how detailed such information must be for debian-policy.
>> Sometimes it is useful to also mention the reasons.  I'm adding debian-mentors
>> in cc so that other sponsors can comment if they want to.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Policy's section 4.4 indicates that "Changes in the Debian version of the
> package should be briefly explained in the Debian changelog file
> debian/changelog".  In that sense, the entry "Remove unused build-deps" is
> already quite informative as it provides the explanation for the change: the
> entries were not used.
> 
> For packages that I maintain in a Git repository, I tend to become brief like
> this in my changelogs, and more verbose in the corresponding commits, for which
> the changelog mentions the first numbers of the hash ID.  But this is a matter
> of taste; all in all, it does not cost much to fill up the changelog line with
> more information.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 

Thanks Bart and Charles for the feedback. I uploaded a new version that
now contains commit hashes for the entries of the new version and also
explains what build dependencies have been removed. Further, a few
commits with changes I considered to be covered by other entries are now
also present in the changelog.

Michael