Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:31:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
I wholeheartedly agree with this, and would go further: even if there
are no Debian BTS reports to close, you should *still* give the
highlights of a new upstream version in the ‘debian/changelog’.
I'm utterly uninformed by a bare “New upstream release.”; of course
it's a new upstream release, I can already see that from the version
number. This is a changelog, tell me *what changed* in this new
upstream version.
I don't see the need for this. For most packages upstream's changelog
is installed in /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/, which will (hopefully)
explain all you need to know.
The upstream changelog isn't displayed by apt-listchanges, so is much,
much less useful. It's also often pretty bad, either including way more
details than the average user cares about or including almost nothing.
I'm with Ben; I try to summarize major changes for all of my packages
that are likely to affect users in the Debian changelog. I don't always
manage, but I try.
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