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Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze



On Ma, 29 ian 13, 14:35:35, "Morel Bérenger" wrote:
> 
> About changelogs, since someone spoke about them (but it is OT from that
> discussion, imho), using aptitude command to retrieve them is quite
> useless, you usually only see changes in packaging, not in real software.

At a minimum you should see a "New upstream release". It is also 
considered good practice to mention at least the highlights from the 
upstream changelog/news/whatever.

> And there are no good evidence when an update is just a bugfix, a minor
> release or a major one.
> Except version numbers, of course, but this does not appear clearly to
> users.

Most users won't care. Those who do care will be able to at least get a 
hint from the usual major.minor or major.minor.bugfix versioning scheme. 

Kind regards,
Andrei
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