Hi Georges, On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 04:42:38PM +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello Andrew, > thank you for the bug report. I agree that reading two NEWS entries > which overlap themselves, the second superseding the first one, > is annoying. > > Please can you help me to merge those entries? I ignore how to do it, > and the page > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#common-packaging-situations > does not give any hint about merging them.
This question came up recently on the mentors mailing list and the advice was to go ahead an edit old entries when it helps users! https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2025/04/msg00119.html Since the last news item before these two was 6 years ago and no one will be able to do a direct upgrade from then, my suggestion would be to replace the whole of debian/cron.NEWS with one new entry for trixie. It could look something like this (or whatever you want - I wasn't 100% sure of the behaviour of the new option): cron (3.0pl1-174) unstable; urgency=medium Running 'cron -N' triggers a cron tick, causing all job definitions to be processed immediately, and then exits. This is useful for testing changes in crontabs. -- Georges Khaznadar <georg...@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:18:31 +0200 In this example I kept the package version as the later of the two old entries but refreshed the datestamp. I hope this is accurate advice! Andrew
