On Mon 26 May 2003, Brian Nelson wrote: > Umm, no, the changelog is for listing changes (*change* log, get it?), > not for just closing bugs without any reason given whatsoever. > > Why do so many seem to have difficulty with this concept? Is it > worthwhile to Cc this stuff to -devel, or should I just give up and let > the proliferation of these IMO useless changelogs continue? (serious, > not rhetorical, questions)
Presumably the people who continue to do this don't read debian-devel, or at least not thoroughly (the subject line of your messages don't necessarily reflect the point you're trying to get across). Perhaps a separate, concise message to debian-devel-announce? Paul Slootman