On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:35:32PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:48:23 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:This probably is a stupid question, but still I feel a bit safer asking, although I've acted on my own opinion once or twice already - hope I haven't stepped on many toes :)
So-called "stupid" questions are often the best. Keep 'em coming! :-D
Apparently, some of the changelog editing tools may add two sections for the same author in the same changelog entry if somebody else has written something else in the meantime;That's debchange, which has two settings: # Introduce multiple-maintainer markers in changelog sections? # DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT=yes # # When appending to a multiple-maintainer changelog, if there are # existing changes made by the current maintainer, should new # changelog entries be appended to the existing entries? # DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=no I.e. by setting DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE to yes in ~/.devscripts these additional sections could be avoided.
Ah, I didn't know it could be avoided.
Is it okay for other team members to consolidate the entries in later updates, as I've done in rev. 67659 with the changelog of libhttp-request-params-perl? Or is there a reason people would want two stanzas in the changelog?I'm always a bit hesitant to change other people's entries; for my own entries: plese go ahead and merge/remove/change/... them in a way that makes sense for the final changelog stanza we deliver to users.
I agree that it is a delicate matter to "mess" with entries written by others. But that is a social issue more than a technical one IMO.
Technically I see the inside of each changelog section as not needing chronological order - it just happens to be easier by _default_ to add each new stanza below the prior ones, and therefore to spawn multiple sections for same author.
I always merge entries when I socially feel confident that my fellow authors won't feel bad about me messing with "their" texts. But that's just me personally, and allover Debian - seldom here in the Perl team where I am not most active.
Hope that helps, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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