Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.5
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Currently, dch will create entries like this for kernel changelog
entries:
[ Bastian Blank ]
* Change ATM and Classical-IP-over-ATM to be modular, instead of being
statically included.
(closes: #323143) (Andres Salomon, Bastian Blank)
[ Sven Luther ]
* [powerpc]
- Added pmac-sound sanity check patch.
- Added preliminary apus patch, not applied though.
[ Simon Horman ]
* Unset CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE in i386 config,
it breaks iproute's (and other netlink users) ability
to set routes. (closes: #322723)
[ Bastian Blank ]
* Added 2.6.12.6
- [Security] Restrict socket policy loading to CAP_NET_ADMIN.
See CAN-2005-2555.
- [Maybe-Security: Can remote traffic trigger this]
Fix DST leak in icmp_push_reply()
- [Maybe-Security: Seems like a local DoS]
NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix
- fix gl_skb/skb type error in genelink driver in usbnet
- [Maybe-Security: Seems like a local DoS]
fix a memory leak in devices seq_file implementation
- [Maybe-Security: Seems like a local DoS]
Fix SKB leak in ip6_input_finish()
Note that we put changelog entries in chronological order, so you'll see
the same author listed multiple times for a release (for each patch they
add, for example). I have a few problems with this format.
First, it emphasizes the author, and not the actual change. This is a
changelog, after all; the person who actually did the change should come
after, not before. Similar to how package changelog entries end with
"-- <author>".
Second, the indentation makes it hard to scan through; the author and
description lines are aligned.
Third, you end up w/ a lot of repeated author entries. As I already
mentioned, we list changelog entries chronologically, since it might be
close to a month between releases; grouping them by author would be
confusing to figure out.
It would be really nice if there was a way to distinguish whether you
wanted dch to list entries chronologically, or grouped by author. In
the case of being grouped by author, the current format could be used.
In the case where you want to list entries chronologically, perhaps the
following format could be used:
* Change ATM and Classical-IP-over-ATM to be modular, instead of being
statically included.
(closes: #323143)
[ Bastian Blank ]
* Unset CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE in i386 config,
it breaks iproute's (and other netlink users) ability
to set routes. (closes: #322723)
[ Simon Horman ]
For listing changes grouped by author, it would still be nice to see
something like the following (keeping consistency w/ older changelog
entries that start w/ *):
* [ Julian Gilbey ]
- bts: fix clone command (Closes: #321798)
- debchange: add comment to manpage about building sponsored uploads
(Closes: #321960)
- debchange: introduce --create option: allows creation of
changelogs / NEWS files (Closes: #220755, #322716), and
inform user about this option if changelog / NEWS file is
not found (Closes: #316661)
However, the important thing is for chronologically entered changelog
entries to not become cluttered with author names...
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