Re: Date and Upsteam-URL fields

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hallo Bill,

Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:50:37PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
>> > > Date: [...] Talk to the dpkg maintainers--
>> > > they're free to implement this feature if they want.  It's not a
>> > > matter for policy.
>> 
>> > I agree it is not a matter for policy. However [...]
>> > it is common to do dch -i, do some minor
>> > clean up, wait a month, make a change and upload the package without
>> > remembering to update the changelog date.
>> 
>> Anyone who makes a change and doesn't put it in the changelog should
>> be chastised. But I agree, it does happen, and there may even be cases
>
> Sure but adding entries to the changelog does not magically update the
> date.

AFAIK it happens if you use emacs. :-)

Bye, Jörg.
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