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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
