Re: Bug#13503 acknowledged by developer (libc6 lacks ChangeLog files)
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 09:11:30AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Juan Cespedes wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 06:48:00PM -0600, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > > It has been marked as closed by one of the developers, namely
> > > Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>.
> >
> > I wonder why.
> >
> > I haven't received anything. In fact, that bug isn't fixed in
> > glibc_2.0.7pre1-4, the current version in the archive (and there isn't
> > any newer version in Incoming).
> >
> > If I don't here anything from you, I'll reopen this bug.
> >
> Please don't reopen this bug!
>
> Changelogs are to inform the user of "recent" changes to the programs in
> the package. The current changelog so provided includes all but changlog.6
> which is information that is a year old. I see no reason to clutter up the
> docs with ancient information.
I think we need some policy on this. The libc6 package has
several changelog files (about 1.5 Mb in total) starting in July 1991,
but our package shows only the last 150K, from January 1997.
Should our packages include all the upstream changelogs? I
think so.
Thanks.
--
Juan Cespedes
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