Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-09 Thread Ian Jackson
ought to be shown by apt-listchanges (which shows you the top part of the changelog since the version being upgraded from). Simon Richter writes ("Re: d/changelog and experimental"): > Bugs are closed based on the changes file, which is generated from the > topmo

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-12-08 at 23:24 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: [...] > The rest of the changelog only exists to preserve history. When you make > an upload to experimental closing a bug, and you later upload the > package to unstable, you have to close the bugs again in the changelog > entry for

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 08.12.19 22:29, Guillem Jover wrote: > I think there are two important properties that need to be preserved > so that debian/changelog entries keep making sense both for humans > and machines alike. The first is that the parseable format entries > should be sorted by version, otherwise

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/3/19 8:21 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paolo Greppi writes: > >> What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to >> unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > >> It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all experimental >>

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 08:15:19 +0100, Paolo Greppi wrote: > What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package > to unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > > It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all experimental > changelog

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 09:53:43AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > Well... I don't think there's anything good that can be done about the > > entries about the unstable uploads that have happened in between... > > Yeah, that's true. Upload history is a graph and I have no

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 03-12-2019 08:21, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paolo Greppi writes: > >> What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to >> unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > >> It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all experimental >>

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This is the typical practice, including all the intermediate >> experiments or false starts in experimental. >> I sympathize with wanting to clean up some of that, but as a project we >> generally have

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paolo Greppi writes: > > > What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to > > unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > > > It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-03 Thread Xavier
Hi, I think that every published versions must have an entry in d/changelog If unstable version follows some experimental ones, then I prefer to have the full entries. This can also help to debug when an other package has a ">= exp-version" Le 3 décembre 2019 08:21:12 GMT+01:00, Russ Allbery

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paolo Greppi writes: > What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to > unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all experimental > changelog entries, and add a new one for unstable. This

d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-02 Thread Paolo Greppi
What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all experimental changelog entries, and add a new one for unstable. But sometimes experimental