Bug#828166: RFS: speedcrunch/0.11-1 [ITA]
Hello,
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 01:03:01AM +0000, Felix Krull wrote:
> I must say I'm a bit confused about how the Developer Reference
> suggests to "concentrate on describing significant and user-visible
> changes," but the informal advice I've heard on changelog entries was
> always to be very detailed and granular, which to me seems more like a
> job for VCS history than a changelog.
It's true that debian-mentors@lists.d.o has a culture of very detailed
changelogs. I suspect that it is because it makes reviewing RFSs much
easier. It is also good practice for team-maintained packages, which
these days is a lot of them -- there were probably far fewer
team-maintained packages when that part of the Developer's Reference was
written.
When deciding whether to add a changelog entry, I try to imagine that
I'm someone trying to perform an NMU or team upload. What information
would I want to know if I was doing that? That's a helpful heuristic.
--
Sean Whitton
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