Bug#878967: debian-policy: clarify purpose of debian/changelog
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 08:48:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Some people in debian-mentors will make very absolute statements about
> never including unreleased versions in debian/changelog and always
> consolidating versions, and will give the impression that literally
> everyone in Debian holds this view. This is not really the case. It's
> *most common* to consolidate versions, and usually there's no point in
> keeping entries for unreleased versions, but this isn't a universal rule
> followed by every experienced Debian maintainer, and there are times when
> retaining entries for unreleased versions is useful (there were non-Debian
> releases of the package, for instance, or there's something about the
> development path that the maintainer felt was important to document).
What actually matter is that the .changes file include the relevant
extract from the changelog and do not miss packaging change because
they where listed in unreleased versions and dpkg-genchanges -v
was not used properly.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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