Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs 
Thanks a lot everyone =D

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dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs 
Dear all

Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style
changelogs?
(Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog
and new upgrade to must)

Eg.

foobar (1.5.11-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Joe Plow Mber ]
   * New upstream release

   [ Vasja Pupkin ]
   * debian/patches
 - added patch descriptions

 -- Vasja Pupkin v...@g.net  Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:09:16 -0700

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Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич


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Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams 
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:06:23 +0100
Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all
 
 Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style
 changelogs?

Yes.

 (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog
 and new upgrade to must)

The important lines are:

 foobar (1.5.11-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
  -- Vasja Pupkin v...@g.net  Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:09:16 -0700


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Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Stéphane Glondu 
Neil Williams a écrit :
 Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style
 changelogs?
 
 Yes.

And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way?

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Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney 
Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com writes:

 Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style
 changelogs?
 (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog
 and new upgrade to must)

That type of changelog allows anything at all following the two space
indent for entries, so yes, policy still allows your chosen style.

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Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Palmer 
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:22:49PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
 Neil Williams a écrit :
  Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style
  changelogs?
  
  Yes.
 
 And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way?

Originally, the debian changelog format was supposed to be pluggable,
where people would write parsers for different changelog formats that would
extract the necessary information (package name, version, changed-by, etc)
from the changelog file.

As it turns out, the current standard format works entirely sufficiently,
and I doubt that anyone's ever used a different style, so that misfeature
has been removed and the standard format everyone uses is now the One True
And Only Format.

- Matt


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