On Sun Jul 06, 04:58pm -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > Would this work just as well? > > > [example without distribution and urgency] > > > > It would work just as well. The changelog format was used unmodified for > > purposes of simplicity. Tools already know how to parse it, and its format > > is already reasonably specified in the documentation. > > To clarify, I meant that such a format would meet the need of NEWS.Debian. > However, the existing tools would not understand it. > > I do not see the extra unused information as a problem, and it lets us use > existing tools for creating and editing NEWS.Debian (debchange, dpkg-dev-el, > etc.)
If you can make apt-listchanges understand the pared-down format, perhaps the others will support it eventually too. I don't care a whole lot about it myself, but it *does* look a lot nicer :)
