(non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. However, they do keep a list of changes, which they published, for the last release, in their site and on the mailing list, and which content would be

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi, 2009/11/5 Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: Hello, the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. However, they do keep a list of changes, which they published, for the last release, in their

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno gio, 05/11/2009 alle 23.20 +0100, Sandro Tosi ha scritto: Hi, 2009/11/5 Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: Hello, the developers of an app I'm packaging, denemo (www.denemo.org) do not use (it is there, but not updated since months) the file ChangeLog. However, they do keep

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sandro Tosi wrote: P.P.S: I'm taking care of this package since few months... under previous maintainer, the upstream ChangeLog was still updated That's nicer, but I don't think it's worth a hunk in diff.gz (either as direct change or patch) for this. What’s stopping one from shipping

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Pietro Battiston too...@email.it writes: Do you suggest me to: - patch the changelog/introduce a new one, and then install it, or - in debian/changelog, after New upstream release, list all of those changes? I always summarize major changes in a new upstream release in debian/changelog

Re: (non-)upstream changelog

2009-11-05 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I always summarize major changes in a new upstream release in debian/changelog whether upstream provides its own changelog or not. It seems polite and I know as a user it makes debian/changelog more useful to me than a bunch of bare New upstream release