Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ross Vandegrift <ross@kallisti.us> writes:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > > Rather, I have a counter-question for you: why are you keeping
> > > entries for unreleased uploads in d/changelog? I find it rather
> > > confusing, mostly useless and with no real upsides as opposed to
> > > cohalesce the entries.
> >
> > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes
> > I made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not.
>
> Thanks for explaining your perspective.
>
> That perspective, I think, does not match the stated purpose for the
> Debian package changelog: to inform *recipients* of the package about
> changes between *releases* of that package.
It's arguable what to do when the Debian packaging is being used _publicly_
outside Debian. In that case, I'd say it's reasonable to allow history of
such unofficial releases.
But for your local WIP? No way.
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