Package: imagemagick Version: 8:6.6.9.7-2 Severity: normal imagemagick (8:6.6.9.7-1) experimental; urgency=low
Imagemagick supply configuration file under /etc -- Bastien Roucariès <roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com> Sun, 01 May 2011 13:43:12 +0200 This is not a useful NEWS.Debian entry. It doesn't seem particularly newsworthy, and it doesn't look like it's been proofread by a native English speaker (debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org is available for such things, I understand). Even if it were newsworthy, it isn't detailed enough to be useful to users reading it: where is the configuration file? Fiddling around in your git repository tells me that it's somewhere under /etc/ImageMagick/, but none of your packages ship any files there (though I suppose that's #627981) so I don't see how anyone could be expected to know that. I would suggest that newsworthiness here should be gauged by whether the typical imagemagick user has to do anything about it. If it's merely a new optional feature, it doesn't need to go in NEWS.Debian. NEWS.Debian was meant for things like notes of things that have changed in an upgrade that the user may need to respond to (see e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/07/msg00286.html). If it's used excessively, then the volume will be too much for users to wade through on upgrades and so the facility will become useless. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org