On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:04:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:36:24 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Good point. Shall we mandate that all bug closures be adequately > >> documented in the ChangeLog? I would be quite happy with that. > > > Ai. Er, I hope you're not planning to encourage people to upload new > > versions of packages just to add bug numbers to the changelog? > > Because that would be most inefficient and wrong. > > *Sigh*. Has common sense totally escaped the world? I never > indicated that one upload every other minute or whenever something is > added to the changelog. > > I do think bug closures be documented in the ChangeLog (I > shall attempt to do so from now on for every real bug that is closed > for my packages). I shall not upload for every item in my changelog. > > And note this does not involve time travel; my changelog would > document the bug was closed, and explain why: the fact that the > change was made in the past is OK.
At least don't use the Closes: syntax to do so, please. That will be a very good way to confuse attempts to track version information ... (By now I can't tell whether this is regarded as common sense or not, sorry.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
