Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi> writes:

> pe, 2006-06-09 kello 22:04 +0200, Bill Allombert kirjoitti:
>> Sometimes, the changelog will tell you the package was last changed 3
>> month ago while actually it was changed yesterday and build and uploaded
>> today. This can lead you to go on a wild-goose chase if you do not know
>> about the problem.
>
> If there were any changes to the package, they MUST be documented in
> debian/changelog. The timestamp in the changelog entry MUST be correct.
>
> If you're talking about the package build date, e.g. for binary NMUs,
> then that might be a different thing. It would be beneficial for the
> discussion to distinguish this point clearly.
>
> -- 
> Pink timeout

Atuomatic binary NMUs have an extra changelog entry with the timestamp
of the build. Manual ones should also have the correct timestamp.

MfG
        Goswin