Re: [Fwd: [Pkg-ocaml-maint-commits] [SCM] libfuse-ocaml packaging branch, debian, updated. debian/0.2-1-1-g0b81018]

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> writes:

> On 30-05-2009, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>> Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi.dogguy@pps.jussieu.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is this really necessary?
>>>
>>> debian/changelog should only talk about packaging changes and not upstream
>>> ones (ok maybe one sentence if there is an important change).
>>>
>>> Changes related to upstream should be present in upstream's changelog
>>> installed in /usr/share/doc/
>>>
>>> Am I mistaken?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> If it weren't for the Pkg-ocaml-maint policy that all packages are to
>> be debian packages this would be a native package. It is bad enough
>> the source is split between 2 git repositories. I'm not going to split
>> changelogs as well. Otherwise the debian changelog would only say "new
>> upstream version" on verry nearly every release.
>>
>> MfG
>>         Goswin
>
> Which is fine ! Most other packages only add "New upstream version" ;-)
>
> You could however format it, this way:
>  * New upstream version:
>    * upstream-change
>    * another-upstream-change 
>    * ...
>
> I think this way is acceptable for Debian changelog format, if you keep
> upstream-change only to really important one (e.g. one that close a
> bug).
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain Le Gall

I will certainly tidy up the entry before a release. This is just
bookkeping of what changed so I don't forget to mention anything
important later.

My normal workflow is that I use the same message for the changelog
and the git commit so the changelog gets verry verbose. Then for a
release I trimm it down to what users might need to know.

MfG
        Goswin