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Re: Edit (to improve) old NEWS entry



Hi Lorenzo,

Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> writes:

> Hello Mentors,
>
> a user reported that some NEWS entries I wrote recently are hard to
> understand and suggested few improvements.
> Is it allowed to edit old NEWS entries, at the benefit of users
> upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie?
> (unstable/testing users won't see the edited NEWS)

I'm not aware of any prohibition against this, and there's at least one
reason why your motivation to improve NEWS entries for Bookworm2Trixie
upgrades is something commendable:

Debian is for its users; NEWS interrupts upgrades; if NEWS is not
important, or if it isn't useful, then that NEWS wastes an unbounded
number of users' time.  Consequently, NEWS should be important, and NEWS
should not taste users' time.

So thank you! :)  Doing this ahead of time, defensively, produces the
situation where no news is good news.

Oh, but please update (or allow your editor to update) the date stamp on
the relevant NEWS entries.  They look something like this:

 -- You Name <your@email.org>  Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:06:58 $timezone


Kind regards,
Nicholas

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