Re: Bug#193903: marked as done (s/seciton/section in D.2.14. `Distribution')
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:35:01 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> said:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must
>> >> have
>> >> been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes:
>> >> Bug#193903
>>
>> > Tsk, bad Manoj (or whoever). If you didn't make a change, there
>> > shouldn't be an entry or closer in the changelog.
>>
>> The hell with that. Nit picky changelog lawyers notwithstanding, I
>> shall always continue to include in my changelog information I deem
>> useful to the users, and people trying to determine why and when
>> bugs were closed.
> Calm down, he thought that this change was made at some random point
> in the past (rather than in the same upload), which would indeed be
> inappropriate by your own definition.
Not quite. There was indeed a change in the package, a change
important enough to result in closing of a bug report. No matter when
the change occurred, it needed to be documented in the changelog --
and it was.
manoj
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recurrence of a single incident, in which that incident is never
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
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