Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:
> I *do* use apt-listchanges to reach changelogs, and I'm not advocating
> that they not exist; I'm simply arguing that they make it a pain to keep
> a Debian package in git, and that we ought to autogenerate them from git
> log and some care taken in commit messages.
This is okay 80% of the time and badly needs manual editing the remaining
20% of the time. I personally would never be willing to forgo good
changelogs in that remaining 20% of the time that can't really be handled
with commit messages, and the systems I've seen for embedding metadata in
Git just seem awkward.
That said, one reason why I hold this position is that I've personally
found the concerns with changelogs checked into Git to be vastly
overblown, and they've never caused me significant problems in practice.
Those who have had other experiences might reach different cost/benefit
tradeoffs.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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