Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling
Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 02 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> No matter what we do here, we're going to make a bunch of packages
>> buggy, because the archive is very divided on current best practice.
>> :(
> Buggy in the sense that existing packages wouldn't comply with the new
> rules?
Right, we'd be saying that you're supposed to do something different than
what a bunch of packages are currently doing. Although it would just be a
regular bug (and really no one should bother reporting it for right now),
we usually try not to do that. But I don't think that's a huge problem
here.
> I don't see this as "buggyness", but more of a simple transition like
> any other. By this metric, the current state is equally buggy. I see the
> current mixture of changelog and release logs as proof that maintainers
> would like to do the best thing for the users, but get tangled by the
> policy.
Yup, I agree.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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