Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@43-1.org> writes: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > I'm not sure what “coordinating via notes at the top of > > debian/changelog” means. Bear in mind that the changelog is > > primarily for communicating package changes *to users* of those > > packages. > > The Perl Group makes use of this: in the unreleased version of > packages, we add notes to d/changelog telling what must still be done […]
> All of these notes are removed before the upload so they do not show > up in the released packages. > > I think this is a very good method to communicate with other team > members about the current state of packages. I don't see the benefit of overloading the ‘debian/changelog’ file for this. Wouldn't it be better to keep the purpose of that file as is, and use a separate file (perhaps ‘debian/TODO’) for this separate purpose of intra-team-only communication? -- \ “If you do not trust the source do not use this program.” | `\ —Microsoft Vista security dialogue | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wru22juv....@benfinney.id.au
