On Thursday 27 October 2005 23:34, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > To me it is a technical matter, as the changelogs are a tool for a > technical job. To me, changelogs are primarily a way of informing the user of changes in a package. Including references to fixed security issues is definitely a part of that. However, when "upstream" policy on a numbering scheme is changed, going back 10 years in changelogs (/me is exaggerating to make a point) and fixing historic references to old entries that were perfectly valid at the time they were written is not a technical matter. I would agree more with the qualification of "revisionist history" made earlier. Of course adding _missing_ references to fixed security issues would be like fixing a minor bug in the changelog. However, that also should not be taken too far: adding entries going back more than half a year (?) seems hardly relevant.
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